Month: February 2017
To the Nines
The discussion of downtime is, unfortunately, subjective. Most Cloud (hosted) providers will give uptime assurances of between 99.9% (three nines) and 99.999% (five nines). But what does that mean? Well, for starters, anything less than three nines is a service level agreement you should walk away from. Why? Well, take a look at the monthly breakdown:
Disaster Recovery
I’ve attended many disaster recovery (DR) meetings, but unfortunately, it’s usually on the list of budget items that gets “pushed back” until next quarter or next year. Every year. With the increasing number of natural and unnatural disasters, it’s important to understand the value of disaster recovery, and have a plan for implementation.
My Life After Social Media
I ran into Kris at a FBA meeting (Facebook Anonymous), and she encouraged me to share my story. So here it is, My Life After Social Media:
The decision I made almost 6 months ago, to remove Facebook from my life, has been a unique and fulfilling experience. I used to be what one would could easily call a “heavy” Facebook user, a veritable social media expert; my own online PR agency. I would post images of all of the interesting things in my life (at least, what I thought was interesting), respond to all the breaking national and global news with my own opinions, and engage in all the superficial and totally meaningless activities that Facebook social media rules dictate I engage in. Yep, I was one of those…