Step 1: Website Emergency Planning
Your Website
Domain Name Use this diagram to identify the vendors
responsible for providing the service and to
• Registration & Renewal identify the areas that are mission critical (i.e. your
• DNS Service website is useless without these areas functioning
properly)
Mission Critical?
Website Hosting 3rd Party Apps
Other 3rd party apps or
• Web Hosting Service plugins used to enhance
• Email Hosting Service the site functionality.
Mission Critical? Mission Critical?
Communication eCommerce
• Bank/Merchant account
• Email Hosting Service • Payment Gateway
• VOIP Service • Shopping Cart etc.
• Live Chat etc. Website Front-End Website Back-End
Supports the front end: Mission Critical?
Mission Critical? What the visitor sees • Databases
when they access the site • Include files, scripts,
(html files, php, asp etc.) libraries, etc.
Mission Critical? Mission Critical?
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