Comment on Keep Tier-One Applications Out of Virtual Environments
superkret@feddit.org 2 days agoWe don’t. It’s a separate, simplified system that only lets the core team members access the layout-, editing- and typesetting-software that is locally installed on the bare metal servers.
In emergency mode, they get written articles and images from the reporters via otherwise unused, remotely hosted email addresses, and as a second backup, Signal.
They build the pages from that, send them to the printers, and the paper is printed old-school using photographic plates.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
That’s a very high degree of BCDR planning, and quite costly I assume.
superkret@feddit.org 2 days ago
It’s much less than the cost of our cybersecurity insurance, which will probably drop us on a technicality when the day comes.
And it’s not entirely an economic decision. The paper is family-owned in the 3rd generation, historically relevant as one of the oldest papers in the country, and absolutely no one wants to be the one in charge when it doesn’t print for the first time ever.