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How to Prepare Your Website for Data Center Outages: Business Resilience Checklist

Following strikes on Yandex data centers, many businesses discovered that their sites and all backups were stored in a single location, leading to complete outages. The article provides a detailed checklist to mitigate such risks by separating critical components across different providers. Key recommendations include moving DNS to an independent provider, lowering TTL values, maintaining a live mirror site on separate hosting, and isolating corporate email. Additional steps cover local backups, monitoring, access management, and CDN usage. The guidance differentiates between virtual hosting, VPS or dedicated servers, and website builders like Tilda, while emphasizing compliance with Russian data localization laws such as 152-FZ.

Power Outage at Major Russian Telecom Node Disrupts Reg.ru Services and Affects Runet Nationwide

A large-scale power failure at a key communication node in Russia caused widespread disruptions to internet services on August 17. Hosting provider and domain registrar Reg.ru experienced a major outage, preventing users from accessing its main website and personal accounts. Multiple sites relying on Reg.ru infrastructure also went down or became unstable, with evidence pointing to problems with DNS servers responsible for translating domain names into network addresses. Users reported simultaneous issues with banking apps, messengers, social networks, and other Russian online resources, though it remains unclear whether all incidents stemmed directly from the Reg.ru-related problems. Reg.ru stated that the issue originated outside its own infrastructure due to electricity supply problems at the major node. The company expressed hope for quick restoration but provided no details on the incident's full scale or recovery timeline at the time of reporting.