To earn money, you have to be present and willing to make your commercial enterprise work. That much is obvious, and almost anyone who starts a business accepts that fact. However, sometimes, the operational validity of your business can be influenced by issues either out of your control, or by measures within your control failing to work as intended.

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The former may include examples like Covid, where many businesses simply weren’t in a position to keep operating. The latter could include examples such as a website going down, or a payment provider being unable to accept the payments you’re looking for.

If you’re tired of business downtime or smaller elements of hosting errors causing you to struggle, you may wish to consider your options. In this post, were going to discuss some of the best and most worthwhile preventative measures to take, so you never have to worry about this again:

Use Colocation Hosting Services

Thinking about colocation hosting services could be a good idea, especially if you're worried about your business always being up and running. This basically means you own your servers and equipment, but they live in a professional data center. These places are built for reliability, with backup power, usually top-notch cooling, and extremely fast internet connections. That means you have your own dedicated IT team looking after the environment your tech lives in, without you actually having to hire them all.

This setup helps avoid any frustrating outages that can happen with less focused and tiered hosting. You still have full control over your software and data, but the physical elements that keeps it all running is in expert hands.

Develop Contingency Planning

Having a solid contingency plan is pretty much essential for any business, especially when you think about the smaller elements that could go wrong. This means figuring out what you’d do if something went wrong, before it actually happens. For example, what’s the backup plan if your main website host goes down? Do you have another service ready to jump in, or a way to quickly switch over?

It’s all about having a clear, step-by-step guide for different disaster scenarios, so you can plan it effectively. If it’s a power cut, a major software glitch, or something more serious, having your appropriate team able to affect immediate change can be soothing.

Have 24 Hour Response Methods

Setting up 24-hour response methods will ensure you limit downtime and bounce back from any unexpected issues. So if your website goes offline in the middle of the night, and you’ve got a team or a service on standby around the clock, they can spot the problem and start fixing it while you’re still asleep. 

Having routes for customers or users to immediately alert to an issue, so you don’t need to rely on off-duty staff to come in in order to notice it, could save hours of unknown downtime, or at least trigger the contingency plan you have in place.

With this advice, we hope you can more easily manage business downtime 

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