Tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and fires are hard enough for individuals to cope with. It’s even worse when an unfortunate event wipes out your business’s valuable and irreplaceable records. This is exactly why disaster recovery planning matters so much.
It gets even worse when your hosting provider’s own services are hit by such an event. Your physical business may remain fine, but your digital business becomes nothing more than a smoldering pile of ashes or a water-soaked hard drive. This leaves you with little choice but to rebuild your website, e-commerce business, or application development environment from scratch.
For most businesses, this is too much of a hurdle to deal with. That’s why they invest in disaster recovery, especially when it comes to their hosting.
The Ready.gov business preparedness guidelines offer helpful guidance for building a broader disaster plan.
Many web hosts provide inadequate recovery options for when disaster strikes. They may be prepared for one failed hard drive or a stolen server, but they’re rarely ready to lose every server at once.
This leaves businesses like yours in a precarious position where you could lose everything with one bad day of weather.
The only way to protect your information from even the most intense natural disasters is to use a host that backs up your data in a variety of ways.
How Volico Protects Your Business Data
Volico protects your data using rigorous security standards. We house it in a facility engineered to withstand category 5 hurricanes, with redundant power and networking systems. We also employ fire protection systems, finely tuned environmental controls, and more.
When it comes to your business’s data, backing it up on a RAID system isn’t enough. You need a comprehensive plan in place that protects you from even the largest disasters, and that’s exactly what Volico’s facilities are designed to withstand. Protect your valuable business by making sure your data, servers, and services never fall victim to natural disasters.
How Hosting Through Volico Supports Disaster Recovery
As data becomes more important, companies are realizing that the cost of losing it is simply too high to bear. As a result, many are taking steps to prepare for disasters. Keeping data safe and restoring what’s lost is essential for a full recovery, and many companies have realized that hosting providers can help. Here are a few ways hosting services make the data recovery process simpler.
Better Data Recovery
Even in the absence of disasters, it’s possible for hard drives to fail. Unfortunately, many companies don’t have the infrastructure needed to recover from hard drive failures. Data recovery needs to start with RAID arrays, which almost all hosting providers offer. The best way to recover from a disaster is to keep all information intact, and hosting providers offer this service.
Better Physical Infrastructure
Hosting providers take physical security seriously, and they operate in buildings that are able to withstand natural and man-made disasters. Business owners don’t always have this opportunity. They might operate out of older buildings that won’t withstand disasters as well as modern ones. When companies work with hosting providers, their data will likely be in better shape for recovery efforts.
Reliable Backup Solutions
All companies should ensure that their data is stored in a redundant manner, and hosting providers offer this service to their customers. Some companies store their own backups, but many have them housed in their main buildings, where a disaster can wipe them out as well. While online backups are better, many companies lack the needed bandwidth. Hosting providers generally have superior solutions available.
Data is the lifeblood of modern businesses, and recovering from disasters is essential. By working with experts at hosting providers, companies can ensure that their data will be available regardless of what Mother Nature throws at it.
Want to take the next step with a trusted disaster recovery provider?
CONTACT US TODAY
Learn more about how the our disaster recovery plan can help you build a solid, affordable and reliable Disaster Recovery strategy.
• Call us at 866.865.4261
• Go to www.volico.com and chat with an online sales assistant.
