Disaster Recovery FAQ Overview
In the event that a catastrophic failure occures in an Evolution Hosting account's application or database, Evolution Hosting has set in place a comprehensive disaster recovery system. This system consists of hardware, software, and remote storage that provide for the backup, analysis, and restoration of an account.Please feel free to contact support with any questions or suggestions.

Evolution Hosting's disaster recovery system allows for either a coarse or a fine-grained restoration. Whether it is an individual user's mailbox or an entire database server that requires restoration, Evolution Hosting's recovery procedures can accomplish the task. The overall suite of disaster recovery procedures translate into increased uptime and reliability for account holders.

The details below are a minimum feature set that every Evolution Hosting account has. Dedicated hosting has additional options above and beyond the list below. This may include changes to the frequency of backups, application or server clustering, or any other recovery measure that an account holder wishes to put in place.

1. Disaster Recovery Overview
2. Disaster Recovery Contents
3. Backup Frequency Summary Chart
4. Redundancy
5. Hot-Standby
6. RAID
7. All files and database data
8. Database Backups
9. Configuration Backups
10. Content Backups
11. E-mail Backups
12. Server Backups
13. Off-Site Backups

Backup Frequency Summary Chart

Backup Frequency Table
Backup Type	Default Frequency	Is User Configurable		End Location		Downloadable
		Shared	Dedicated	Shared	Dedicated	Shared	Dedicated
All files and database data	Daily	Yes	Yes	Storage Area Network (SAN)	SAN	Yes	Yes
Full Database Schema	Weekly	No	Yes	SAN	SAN	No	Yes
Configuration	Upon Publish or Server Restart**	No	No	Evolution Hosting Console Database	Evolution Hosting Console Database	Yes	Yes
Content	Upon Publish or Server Restart**	No	No	Evolution Hosting Console Server	Evolution Hosting Console Server	Yes	Yes
E-mail	Daily	No	Yes	SAN	SAN	No	Yes
Server	Weekly	No	Yes	SAN	SAN	No	No
Off-Site	Monthly	No	Yes	Geo Remote SAN	Geo Remote SAN	No	Yes

** Configuration changes and content are synchronized between Evolution Hosting Console Server and Customer Application Server

Redundancy
The Evolution Hosting is built from the ground up with redundancy in mind. Some examples of this include:

• Multiple Internet data connecitons to tier 1 providers
• All account configurations stored in databases
• Replication based site-publish architecture allows for dynamic account moves or restorations.
• Redundant central infrastructure such as DNS and mail servers
• Advanced monitoring of systems in all respects, both at the central infrastructure and individual account level.

Hot-Standby Servers
Evolution Hosting maintains hot-standby servers that are preconfigured with the Evolution Hosting envioronment and replication agent. Should an accounts server become unusable, Evolution Hosting can use its administration console to dynamically move the account from the corrupt server to a new hot-standby server. This feature is entirely automated and takes only a matter of seconds.

RAID
RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Independant Disks". RAID allows a server to continue functioning if one or more hard disks fail. Each server in the Evolution Hosting environment has RAID and therefore has increased reliability at the disk-hardware level.

All files and database data
All files belonging to the account, files created by the application server, e-mail mailboxes, and data in the database are backed up daily. Daily database backups include only data and do not include the database schema (e.g. table definitions, stored procedures). Full database backups, including schema, are performed weekly. Account holders may schedule and access Evolution Hosting data backups at any time. This backup can be downloaded by the account holder via FTP or web browser (including via SSL).

Database Backups
Evolution Hosting database schemas and data are fully backed up once per week and saved to a Storage Area Network. In the event of a database failure, the backups are quickly restored to a hot-standby database server.

Configuration Backups
In the Evolution Hosting environment, all application configuration settings are stored in an Evolution Hosting Console™ database. These settings are, therefore, stored in a separate location from the account's production environment. In the event of a failure with the application's configuration, this environment may be dynamically recreated to the existing production deployment server, or it may be dynamically recreated on a hot-standby server.

Content Backups
In the Evolution Hosting environment, all web and application content is backed up via the Evolution Hosting Console's replication feature. When content is uploaded, it is placed in an Evolution Hosting Console server. This content remains on the Console server until it is published to its respective production deployment server, where the application runs. In this way, the current content set is always in two places, whenever an application is restarted or Published. Should the production deployment server experience problems, the entire application can be immediately published to a new hot-standby server.

E-mail Backups
Evolution Hosting e-mail accounts are backed up daily and saved to a Storage Area Network. These backups can be used to recreate an account's entire mailbox structure, including all folders and messages. Should a single mailbox become corrupted, Evolution Hosting staff can also use these backups to quickly restore an individual account.

Server Backups
All servers in the Evolution Hosting environment are backed up on a regular schedule to the Evolution Hosting Storage Area Network. These backups ensure that in the event that other restoration steps fail, the server itself, with all of its data, can be restored to a new platform.

Off-Site Backups
All backups are brought off-site on a regular schedule to a physically secure and confidential location. These backups ensure that all data can be restored in the case of a catastrophic event.