Internet Home Based Business and contingency plans

You built a successful home business and Internet-based revenues in rotation, so why should worry about contingency plans? After all, the Internet is ubiquitous and available virtually anywhere in the world. We will look at some of the single points of failure, which could seriously damage your revenue stream in this article on emergency plans.

There are literally thousands if not millions of internet businesses today and we can not anticipate every possible scenario. Instead, this article will discuss some of the general areas that those who depend on it for their revenue should consider. Single points of failure are really the core of any contingency planning. Whenever you have a failure of one of these items, you can seriously risking your revenue stream and customer service.

The Internet itself is widely available with many interconnecting paths and traffic management as a result is one of the most robust networks available on the planet. So what's the problem? Well everyone has access to the Internet at some point, regardless of whether they do it from home or office. Moreover, the services that are used to provide service to customers must also access the Internet as well. These points of access and applications running on these servers are often hotbeds of crisis for many people.

Let's say you have a high speed line coming into your home with multiple computers and employees who work on them and using this high-speed line. What happens if you have the computer failure, the hard drive fails or your high-speed line goes down for a day. You back up plans in place to replace the computer to work from another location or to retrieve lost data. Depending on the risk of these events occurring and the impact on your income, you may want to implement recovery programs that minimize the impact of such failures.

At the other end of the network is more likely to use some of those server farms and applications that are running on these servers. This area is even more important in that if the revenue stream depends on these applications running you want to make so that they can survive any number of disasters. Questions that you can understand: you backed up your data every day, do not have the backup server applications can be migrated to if there is a failure, do not have the power of new to do with power failures, not have different access points to the Internet in the case where a line goes down, are their databases protected from hackers, etc.

These are just some areas that should be considered as part of your contingency planning. Of course you need to balance costs against the loss of revenue, with the risk of failure to decide on what should be spent to deal with a potential for your home based business on the Internet.

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