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Then perhaps small(ish) companies shouldn't hold data that's critical to their customers. Just like real engineering companies don't build nuclear reactors if they can't test their safety systems, cars if they can't afford to do crash testing and so on.

DR is not a luxury. Systems that don't properly do DR aren't unoptimized or something, they're badly engineered.




Doubt any business will go down as a result of a web based diagram tool being unavailable for a few hours.


I wasn't referring to this specific case. Also, "don't worry, our services may suck, but not to the point where they bring down your business" is not exactly the kind of reliability one would want to aspire to.




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