RE: FN-FORUM: Is it possible to host a website on two servers as a backup?

date posted 25th January 2007 12:48

What you're talking about is failover - which isn't really an option unless
you want to spend loads.

One thing you can do that's free to at least minimize the problem is to have
to entries in dns for www. So that the clients 'alternate' between servers.

However, you can only really do this for static sites unless you have
replication in place for the two sites.

Leigh Jepson
Midnight Software

> -----Original Message-----
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> Glendinning
> Sent: 25 January 2007 13:33
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> Subject: FN-FORUM: Is it possible to host a website on two servers as a
> backup?
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>
> Good Afternoon,
>
> A client of mine (with 1and1) has had major downtime, and is now
> asking me whether its possible to host the site elsewhere as well, and
> set up a system whereby if the site does go down, we can have it
> point (using the same domain name) to the other hosting.
> I would have thought not, given that where a domain name points to is
> defined by the namesevers...
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Duncan
>
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