This page details production environment issues.
Failure Scenarios
- hard drive fails
- data Center is destroyed
- database is corrupted
- network connectivity is lost
Risks
- DOS attacks
- SQL injection attacks
- account and password security
So what? Don't forget about EAS upgrades, PostgreSQL/PostGIS upgrades, Django upgrades, etc., major versions and patches.
Virus scans?
what is our Recovery Time Objective? (how soon to be back up and running)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_Time_Objective
access to the database is more important than access to the cached map data
upon a DC failover, we will have to reseed chache
Can we assume that we are not going to use replication?
If no replication, how much work can we loose? (1 day, 4 hours?, 2 hours?)
Recovery Point Objective (acceptable amount of data loss measured in time)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_point_objective
monitor disk space
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