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I like the idea, but remember that the SLA with your fiber provider doesn't mean your fiber magically will come back within a few hours when someone in the street cuts through the cable by accident. Your clients will still experience downtime unless you have two fiber lines going in different directions - completely redundant. If you don't have that, I would recommend some kind of a licensed microwave link on your roof as a failover.


We have a fallback coax connection going another way, it's only 500Mb/100Mb/s but it does the job if the fiber is cut. We are also working on having a 5G fallback just in case, as 5G bandwidth can be quite high on short range.


Sounds like you have a pretty decent set up then. With all the redundancies in place (and hopefully power redundancy too, batteries, generator) you can run mission critical software from there.


You always have a DR offsite, even if you are hosting on Big Cloud that would be sensible to setup.

Your RTO and RPO needs will dictate your DR setup in both scenarios. Most apps can take few hours hit if the alternative is spending 2-3x .


Yes, and we also have off site replication using ZFS send/recv. Which would let us restore everything in a few hours in case of major disaster.




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