Jack Jarvis Esquire
Well-known member
Yes, but not holding your supplier to provide and execute a valid plan that integrates with and supports your own is an abject failure in your supply chain management. Without going into details, I've been responsible for commercial deals for UKGov in highly sensitive IT contexts including NI for many years. I'd expect to be fired if I wasn't across something as basic as that. Clearly for a game the stakes are lower, but it's still a vital business requirement in context.Ahh, here it is again... the "poor, poor little indie-studio SSG" card. That sympathy card has some serious, unwarranted miles on it.
Pro-tip - They're a multi-million dollar company (not even counting the LoTRO revenue) who's literal entire business is selling 1s and 0s.
If they haven't "justified" having a proper offsite failover plan then they have essentially "decided" they don't want to stay in business if/when they encounter a true DR scenario.
IT history is littered with the corpses of hosting companies who suddenly shutdown / failed virtually overnight.
Trusting your hosting provider to also be your DR site/planner is putting all of your eggs in one basket. Not a good idea.
Redundancy is one of the core tenants of DR planning. Diversity (in your service providers) is one of the core tenants of redundancy.
I don't think we're disagreeing here. I'm just clarifying the original point I was making. ?