Off-site DR Site & Colocation Setup

Why a backup in the same room saves nothing

Many server rooms in Vientiane and the provinces keep the backup NAS next to the rack. One fire, one rainy-season flood in a low area, or one burglary takes production data and backups together. Ordinary backup covers deleted files and failed disks, but not the loss of the whole room. For most offices under 50 people we would agree two numbers in writing first: data loss limit (RPO) and downtime limit (RTO).

Which second site fits

Another branch of your own costs least, but the room usually needs better UPS, cooling and locks first. A rented rack in a colocation facility gives round-the-clock power, cooling and guards without building a room yourself; we do not own or operate any data center, we install your equipment into the rented rack correctly. Cloud suits teams that want to grow without buying hardware:

• Own branch: lowest spend, but budget for UPS, cooling and door access
• Rented rack: power, cooling and guards included, sized by rack space and power draw
• Cloud: no hardware to buy, but needs a stable link and a monthly operating budget

Replication, offline copies and the drill

We replicate virtual machines (server virtualization) and backups to the second site on the agreed schedule. One copy stays immutable or offline, so ransomware in the main network cannot delete every copy at once. The time math must be honest: 500 GB over a 20 Mbps link takes about 55 hours (500,000 MB divided by 2.5 MB per second), so heavy-change sites need a faster link or a seed carried on disk. We set up the site-to-site VPN, the DNS switch plan and the boot order, then prove it with a yearly drill that times a real recovery. Send us a photo of your current rack and your backup software dashboard on WhatsApp and we will suggest the site type and RPO/RTO that fit you.