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

date posted 25th January 2007 12:54

its completely possible, you'd need to use a DNS management service though. We use something simular at 'work'. Our main server is with fasthosts but, in case of a total outage at FH we've a secondary server in the states. Our DNS management service has a 'failover' system which constantly checks if the FH site is responding, if not it swaps the DNS record over to point the domain name at the secondary host then back again when FH starts responding, happens within about 30 seconds or so of FH going offline.

The advantage of this is that you have a pretty much bulletproof website in terms of uptime, the downside is you have to keep both servers up to date (which isnt a big deal really). I'm not 100% sure but I think we use EasyDns.


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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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