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With the recent windstorms and power losses in Western Washington, I’ve been asked how to keep businesses going no matter the disaster. Here’s a few tips:
1) Cable and DSL have no SLA (service line agreement - an uptime and performance agreement). Though more expensive, a T1 can be be worth it.
2) If you run an in-house mail server, a backup mx record is a must to ensure no mail gets lost.
3) Knowing where each network device is located and how to power cycle/reboot it is important. I fixed many networks today just helping people reboot the right device.
4) Battery backups (UPS) can help for a while but ultimately a generator is needed if you want to stay up a long time with power loss.
5) Have an alternate location to work from. I went to the Columbia Tower Club to recharge batteries and get online the two days I was out.
6) Have a great back up system, many disasters cause data loss and losing data is far more expensive than just being down a few days.
The Author: Kevin Selkowitz
About: Kevin Selkowitz is the founder and lead consultant for Selkowitz Technology, a Seattle-area small business systems consulting company. We focus on the four major technology needs of small businesses - phone systems, phone and internet service, servers/network infrastructure, and business applications.
This entry was posted by Kevin Selkowitz, on Monday, December 18th, 2006 at 9:58 pm and is filed under Phone Systems. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response on the right, or trackback from your own site.
