I don't know anything about your setup and architecture but do remember, pinboard was one of the sites that was swooped up in the RAID that got instapaper and a few others.
Instapaper stayed up because the server taken was only a slave. Pinboard had some of their main hardware taken, and while things did slow down, they too stayed up. Half, maybe more of those hosting fees could be servers that do nothing at all but sit around and wait for a RAID.
Would you still be able to build out a hypothetical system as you mention and be able to handle one data center effectively disappearing? Or does that mean taking your information and essentially doubling it, to have a second backup source?
Instapaper stayed up because the server taken was only a slave. Pinboard had some of their main hardware taken, and while things did slow down, they too stayed up. Half, maybe more of those hosting fees could be servers that do nothing at all but sit around and wait for a RAID.
Would you still be able to build out a hypothetical system as you mention and be able to handle one data center effectively disappearing? Or does that mean taking your information and essentially doubling it, to have a second backup source?