http://storefrontbacktalk.com/e-commerce/down-for-8-days-american-eagles-site-disaster/ Techniques, Tools and Tirades about Retail Technology and E-Commerce Sun, 20 May 2012 01:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://storefrontbacktalk.com/e-commerce/down-for-8-days-american-eagles-site-disaster/comment-page-1/#comment-80689 Gareth Evans Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:26:44 +0000 http://www.storefrontbacktalk.com/?p=5776#comment-80689 Contingency planning is frought with all sorts of pitfalls. The suggestion about running your mobile site on "mirrored versions of the key databases" sounds great, aprt from in AE's case the gradual curruption of the main site's databases due to the array problem would also be "mirrored" onto the mobile site. You could handle bandwidth issues by locating in the same datacentre and sharing the main site's bandwidth. But that leaves both sites vulnerable to both a bandwidth outage or a datacentre failure (say, the power supply fails. It reminds me of the phrase currently very popular with politians (certainly over here in the UK) "it's a problem of unintended consequences". Contingency planning is frought with all sorts of pitfalls. The suggestion about running your mobile site on “mirrored versions of the key databases” sounds great, aprt from in AE’s case the gradual curruption of the main site’s databases due to the array problem would also be “mirrored” onto the mobile site.
You could handle bandwidth issues by locating in the same datacentre and sharing the main site’s bandwidth. But that leaves both sites vulnerable to both a bandwidth outage or a datacentre failure (say, the power supply fails.
It reminds me of the phrase currently very popular with politians (certainly over here in the UK) “it’s a problem of unintended consequences”.

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