A question about resilience and about rest. If the honest answer is no, it is worth finding out why before illness or a holiday forces the question.
Run through this list
- Payments: would renewals and new purchases continue?
- The product: would you know if it went down? Who would fix it?
- Support: what happens to incoming requests?
- Access: does anyone else have the credentials, if something happened to you?
- Bills: are the domain, hosting and key tools on automatic payment with a card that will not expire?
- Obligations: is anything due, such as tax filings or renewals?
Things that make time away possible
- Monitoring that alerts you, or someone you trust, when the site is down
- An automatic reply that sets expectations and links to the documentation
- A help page that answers the ten most common questions
- A written description of how to restart, roll back and restore
- A trusted person with emergency access, and instructions
- A password manager with an emergency contact configured
Reply with how long you could be away today, what would break first, and what you have put in place. If you have taken a real break from a solo business, tell us how it went.