Take a quick look inside my refrigerator and make an observation. What is the first thing that comes to mind? Yes, my wife is out of town.
(Please note, only one beer is missing from the six pack. Drink responsibly!)
My wife has been out of town since Thursday morning, so I’ve had a lot of time on my hands to kill (and pizza’s to eat).
Throughout the weekend, I’ve accomplished the following:
Off-site Backup - Ever since we relocated all of our servers to The Planet, making client backups has been our responsibility as RW’s previous data center took care of backups for us. Keeping with our promise of out nightly off-site backups, we’ve contracted services with WebbyCart. Thanks to our partnership with WebbyCart, ReadyWire technicians and customers can rest assured knowing that data residing on all of our servers is fully backed up, at an off-site facility.
As I’m sure you can tell, we’re making great strides at bringing everything “in house.” At ReadyWire, we’re no longer relying on other companies to manage our servers. I had mixed feelings about this at first but I’m loving the total control that we now have over our precious servers.
We are now safe and sound in the event of a hard drive crash or a server attack. However, if one of these horrendous events occur, will we know that we’re out of commission?
Server Monitoring & Uptime Tracking - Please allow me to answer that critical question. Yes. In the event of a server crash, whether it’s a ReadyWire machine or a client’s dedicated server or virtual private server, we will receive instant alerts via email and SMS to our Blackberry’s. The third-party system that we’re subscribing to is also monitoring & logging all outages on the RW network. This will help us in prioritizing the replacement of equipment across the RW network.
Software Updates - Early Friday morning, I finished upgrading software packages on all of our servers, bringing our entire fleet up to date. These updates did some pretty phenomenal things. Our servers are responding quicker than ever.
Now, it’s time for a break. I think I’m going to watch season 4 of Entourage on DVD. But remember, even when we’re taking a break, the network is covered. Safe and sound. And that’s my promise to you!
Rick Hall
rick.hall @ readywire.com
