Live platform status is published on the Talkative status page.
Redundancy and failover
- Databases run in multi-availability-zone deployments.
- Load balancing distributes traffic across instances, with autoscaling in place.
- Infrastructure health is monitored, including compute utilisation, database I/O, load balancer latency, error rates and message queue health.
Backups
- Databases are backed up automatically every day.
- Point-in-time recovery is enabled for key data stores.
- Backups are replicated across regions for redundancy.
- Restore procedures are tested, and database restore tests are documented.
Business continuity & disaster recovery
We maintain a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan and run disaster recovery exercises (including tabletop scenarios) to validate it. The plan defines Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives (RTO/RPO), which we validate through documented restore testing.