ArtisanChat Docs

In a past life, I ran IT for a number of different places, most recently including an airline and a bank. It's been awhile, but I remember enough to know disaster recovery plans are important.

What happens if our data centers burn down? ArtiChat is currently hosted on MastoHost, which in turn contracts for space in data centers and whatnot. One hopes they have their own redundancy and recovery plans, of course, but to a certain extent we have to take those on trust.

MastoHost offers external backups, which I take advantage of, because I don't trust anybody that much. Worst case, I point our DNS record to wherever we set up on a new, un-burnt hosting service. We'd lose up to a week of posts and new accounts and whatnot, but as catastrophic failures go it could be worse.

What if we get compromised? That gets a little more complicated but again, absolute worst case we start over from an uncompromised backup. (And I get to spend a lot of time sending out notifications to all y'all.) I keep three generations of offsite backups, all in one place and nowhere else. And I use 2FA everywhere, and am one of the most deeply suspicious people you'll meet... won't say I can't be phished, but at least they'll have to work at it.

What if I get hit by a beer truck? I am recording everything about ArtiChat with the intention of handing it off to some kind of board/organization anyway. All the passwords are in my archive with the password manager's deadman-switch thingy so if I drop dead my husband can manage the handover. One of MastodonART's moderators has admin access to keep the thing running in the meantime; mART will take over if I haven't put together a board here by then.