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Past Year Review (2021)

It’s again that time of the year, the end of it, the moment where we stop, we look back and check how we did. Have we been able to do all the things we wanted to do? Of course not. But what matter most is what has been achieved. Let’s abandon the regrets and let’s focus on what’s next. Every…

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Save yourself from a disaster #10: Play with Providers

This is the tenth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget. Try to experiment and find the right technology.…

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Save yourself from a disaster #9: Disaster Recovery Plan

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.…

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Save yourself from a disaster #8: Manual Configurations

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 through many steps, are you sure you remember all the…

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Save yourself from a disaster #7: Billing Impact

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.…

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Save yourself from a disaster #6: Redundancy of DNS

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…

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Save yourself from a disaster #5: Redundancy of Web Servers

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…

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Save yourself from a disaster #4: Redundancy of Storage

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…

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Save yourself from a disaster #3: Redundancy of Database

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 them): Backups Redundancy…

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Save yourself from a disaster #2: Secure the Storage

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…

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