19th
What if it crashes?
Have you ever thought of the possibility of your web application crashing? Probably there was some data corruption or data integrity was compromised of some sort. It could happen in different ways. But I’m more particular about the database since that’s where most of the application data is stored - registrations, transactions, account status and so on. If you have not developed a backup and restore policy, then I advice you do so. A web site crashing or losing data due to one problem or the other is not uncommon.
I’m currently servicing a hosting account for a customer with a considerably large amount of traffic and transactions per month and although my hosting company has a backup policy in place, comprehensive backup solutions might not just be enough. I’m more particular about doing an incremental backup of the database and I’m investigating a solution that will work with the Amazon S3 storage cloud.
