Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Ryan Wilkins wrote:

> > ---- Original Message -----
> > > What do you do when you get home to put it back on the air -- let's
> > > say email as a base service, since it is -- do you have the gear laying around,
> > > and how long would it take?
> >
> > Focus on this part, BTW, folks; let's ignore the politics behind the
> > shutdown.  :-)

1.  I always keep a printed copy of all email and cellphone contacts that
   I normally would have access to online.

2.  Critical is contacting your users.  Normally your company has its
   mailing list but that is now down.  You could set up a new list via
   Google groups or Yahoogroups or even your own Mailman on a VPS, but
   what about the list of users?  Always keep an updated exported list of
   your users on a DoK so you can rebuild later.

3.  Website: as above, keep a duplicate copy of your basic HTML pages on
   some DoK that you can take with you.  Have the user+pswd to your
   registrar so you can repoint your DNS to some new site you now setup up
   with the new updated info about your downtime.

-Hank