If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
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Re: If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
#2This has to already have happened. There's so many WordPress sites, some of them must be zombies, functioning long after the owner has died.
Re: If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
#3This has to already have happened. There's so many WordPress sites, some of them must be zombies, functioning long after the owner has died.
Sure. But this would be a zombie business
Re: If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
#4If you're hosting it yourself, until somebody comes in and turns off the equipment.
If it's hosted on the web, until the hosting company cuts off your service for non-payment.
Re: If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
#5> Spectacular failures include
Someone misplaced a comma (hello YAML), prod dies, yor site doesn't come up because never it happened to test the infra against the bla kout
Re: If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
#6If you're hosting it yourself, until somebody comes in and turns off the equipment. If it's hosted on the web, until the hosting company cuts off your service for non-payment.
And if the website is small enough that it's hosted for free, until the hosting company stops having a free tier.
Re: If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
#7It's a good idea to have a plan if you will fall into long coma, be unconscious and unrecognized in a hospital for months, get falsely imprisoned in a foreign country etc. For backups it's a good idea to not rely on providers that charge your credit card every month, but instead have a wallet, or you can pay for multiple years (yes, there is at least one that allowed me to do that) in advance.
For webapps... Given that in that time there will be probably many vulnerabilities discovered, maybe it's better you just have backups and restore it from them once your credit card declines, given e.g. GDPR - or equivalents - implications. Assuming you don't have employees (if that, see below).
And if you die.. if you don't have dependants, who cares. If you do, that's basic business continuity operation.
Re: If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
#8If you're hosting it yourself, until somebody comes in and turns off the equipment. If it's hosted on the web, until the hosting company cuts off your service for non-payment.
And if the website is small enough that it's hosted for free, until the hosting company stops having a free tier.
There are still websites running on angelfire and other free sites since the 90s
Re: If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
#9Re: If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running?
#10A person I'm vaguely acquainted with runs a web store as a solo venture. She was in a traffic accident and injured badly enough to be unconscious for an extended period of time and unable to do anything with the website, it kept selling product until everything registered out of stock and eventually she was able to shut the site down (no idea how the merchant account didn't get suspended in the 5 months or so as nothing shipped and obviously there was no response to any charge back)