This is the ninth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How are you going to behave in the event of a disaster? You’ll start running around waving your hands up in the air? Ok, stop, breathe, and try to follow these advices. Disclaimer This…

This is the eighth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. Snowflakes servers are our enemies, we should avoid them like the plague. Our best allied are fail-proof reproducible steps, even better if coded in an actionable code, like Infrastructure as Code. We went…

This is the seventh part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. In this post we will check about the “hardest” part of all of it, the money coming out of our pockets. So, let’s crunch some numbers. Disclaimer This guide won’t cover everything, it won’t…

This is the sixth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How can we make sure our website is always available and not going down when a node is offline? We could do mainly 2 things: Secondary DNS Manual Switch Disclaimer This guide won’t cover…

This is the fifth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How can we make sure our second most important asset is safely secured in case of a disaster? We could mainly 3 things: Duplicate VM Docker Kubernetes Disclaimer This guide won’t cover everything, it…

This is the fourth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How can we make sure our second most important asset is safely secured in case of a disaster? We could mainly 2 things: Distributed Storage Backups Disclaimer This guide won’t cover everything, it won’t…

This is the third part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How can we make sure our most important asset (which is the DB) is safely secured in case of a disaster? We could do mainly 2 things (and you better do both of…

This is the second part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How can we make sure our second most important asset is safely secured in case of a disaster? We could mainly 2 things: Distributed Storage Backups Disclaimer This guide won’t cover everything, it won’t…

This is the first part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. How can we make sure our most important asset (which is the DB) is safely secured in case of a disaster? We could do mainly 2 things (and you better do both of…