Your business website is your livelihood. It’s where you make your money. With Tropical Storm / Hurricane Barry looming down on South Louisiana, it’s important to minimize effects on your business. Read how to ensure your website survives the storm or any disaster.
It feels like. Mad Max movie at times. With disasters happening simultaneously, it’s critical to prepare your business and your website. Think about July 2019 alone: there were earthquakes in California and Hurricane Barry is breathing on the Louisiana coast as we type this. From tornadoes, flooding, wildfires, and most recently hurricanes, everyone stays prepared by stocking up on necessary items and disaster-proofing their residence..
But as a business owner, do you know if your website is ready for an emergency? Learn how to ensure that your company’s website survives the worst of storms.
If your computer were to crash, get damaged from the disaster, or even get lost, your files will most assuredly be gone, deleted, vanished. Backing up your files remotely should be your first priority for surviving the storm in the event that something happens to your machine.
Keep all of the important and necessary information about your website with you. Have a physical copy, digital copy stored on a flash drive, and another stored on a cloud-based server. Data redundancy is important to ensure your business survives the storm!
Also prepare a document with all the information about your website:
Why do you need a responsive website? During an emergency, your lifeline to the outside world is your phone or your tablet. A responsive website enables customers in the affected area to find you (it’s a must for search engines,) and for you to continue serving them.
An HTTP 503 response is temporary service not available error. Whether it is due to some technical error or maintenance purpose. In the event that your site goes down during a disaster, this 503 error page could be the only point of contact your customers would have. Create a 503 page that gives customers the information they would need in the event of an emergency such as:
as a BlakSheep Creative client (we prefer to call them partners,) we do all of the work for you and make sure that your website is prepared for any disaster, natural or man-made.
We do this by having redundant servers throughout the globe to ensure your downtime (although highly unlikely,) is minimal.
Your data is safe and secure.
We can even handle all of your social media needs and communication needs to ensure your customers that you’re business is just fine and ready to provide your goods and services during these tough times.
Use our website price calculator to estimate how much your custom website will cost to have built.
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