<b>Tracker backup and failover — surviving a server outage</b>

<b>Tracker backup and failover — surviving a server outage</b>

When your self-hosted tracker (Keitaro, Binom) goes down, every campaign serves errors and you lose the traffic you already paid for. Prepare the failover before you need it.

Resilience checklist:

— Automate daily database backups (clicks + conversions) to off-server storage; verify a restore actually works, not just that the file exists
— Keep a second tracking domain pre-pointed and ready to swap DNS in minutes
— Document the exact recovery steps so a panic at 3am follows a script, not improvisation
— Set uptime monitoring on the tracker domain with an alert — you should learn it's down before your sources do
— Configure a safe fallback redirect at the DNS/server level so dead clicks go to a default offer, not a 502

Data integrity rules:

— Backup before every tracker software update — updates can corrupt the click table
— Test restore quarterly on a staging box; an untested backup is a hope, not a backup

Keep the recovery doc and credentials somewhere reachable when the server itself is down.

Save this SOP. Run this before every launch.