Re: Web hosting for Emergency notification/DR

["Hunt,Keith A" <keith () UAKRON EDU>]

Mike,

Sorry, I can't help you with the indemnity clause question but I do have one of my own for you:
What are the specifics of how you are planning to switch your DNS records -- is that happening somewhere upstream? What 
is your TTL set to?

Well OK, I guess that was two questions...

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Keith Hunt  330.972.7968  keith () uakron edu
Internet & Server Systems
The University of Akron



> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Fox
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:55 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] Web hosting for Emergency notification/DR
>
> We are trying to find a hosting site that we can use for emergency/DR
> purposes. The plan is to have some templates created for specific
> situations and have them ready on the hosted site. The hosted site
> would have a re-direct on it to our active website for day to day
> business. During an emergency where we are down or told we will be down
> (due to weather, power issues, etc.) we would take off the re-direct,
> use the template that is created for that specific situation, point DNS
> to the hosted site and wait for the propagation.
>
> We are on the east coast and we are susceptible to Hurricane and
> tornadoes so we are looking for a site that is not as susceptible to
> disasters (I know everybody has their own set of disasters to deal
> with), like out in Utah :).
>
> My problem is that our legal department says that we cannot enter into
> a contract that has an indemnity clause in it. I haven't found a
> hosting (commercial) site that doesn't have this clause and I've asked
> a few if they would remove it and got the response, NO.
>
> So I would ask, has anybody done this (with the contract restriction),
> how, with whom, or what other ways could this be accomplished?
>
> Any help or ideas would be appreciated. (Hurricane season is upon us.)
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
> Mike Fox
> Georgia Southern University
> Information Technology Services
> Office of Information Security
> mfox () georgiasouthern edu
> (912)478-1592
> Jeremiah 29:11-16
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