After announcing our expansion into an underground hosting facility (and answering plenty of questions about whether that was real 😄) we can confirm we are also working on a very real upgrade to our backup strategy.
From April we are moving part of our off-site backups to Scaleway Glacier, an affordable and robust long-term storage service — housed in a literal bunker deep underground in France.
These backups are primarily long-term snapshots of critical data where we want to go back further than, say, three months.
Why this move?
- Physical separation: extra protection against disasters or incidents on Dutch soil
- Compliance friendly: Scaleway is fully French and fits data sovereignty requirements
- Geographic diversity: a key step towards resilient infrastructure
- Cost effective: low storage costs for backups you hopefully never have to restore
- Cool factor: come on, it lives in a bunker…
We will of course continue operating our regular off-site backups in the Netherlands, but this addition provides extra peace of mind and fits our long-term view on continuity and sustainability.
More details will follow soon in our technical documentation — including retention policy and encryption approach.