Physical failure
Recently, my cloud host experienced a physical failure, and the recovery time was more than 5 hours. Does anyone have any good preventive measures? Because once the physical fails, I will not be able to perform any operations on this cloud host.
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mtcotton846
Linode Staff
A lot of the potential solutions are talked about here:
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/disaster-recovery/
The first recommendation I would make woudl be to have a backup plan ready:
https://www.linode.com/docs/products/storage/backups/get-started/
Also having something like a Kubernetes cluster (depending on your use case) would help with individual nodes failing because of host issues:
https://www.linode.com/docs/products/compute/kubernetes/
Also depending on your use case, you could utilize a NodeBalancer and have that feed traffic to one of multiple back-end nodes, which would aid your ability to distribute load across multiple potential points of failure:
https://www.linode.com/docs/products/networking/nodebalancers/get-started/
In short, having options, whether that be backups, or individual nodes hosting the content you are concerned with, is always a good idea.
I hope that helps!
-Micah