[donnachangstein]

HN posters love talking gangster shit when something goes offline but never walked a mile in their boots.

I most recently remember sifting through gloating that 4chan - a shoestring operation with basically no staff - was offline for a couple weeks after getting hacked.

I've worked at a shop that had DR procedures for EVERYTHING. The recovery time for non-critical infra was measured in months. There are only so many hands to go around, and stuff takes time to rebuild. And that's assuming you have procedures on file! Not to mention if there was a major compromise you need to perform forensics to make sure you kick the bad guys out and patch the hole so the same thing doesn't happen again a week after your magical recovery.

And if you don't know, you shut it down till it's deemed safe. How do you know the backups and failover sites aren't tainted? Nothing worse than running an e-commerce site processing customer payment card data when you know you're owned. That's a good way to get in deeper trouble.