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

date posted 25th January 2007 13:01

major downtime with 1and1, u want to get some money back from their 99.9%
uptime guarantee! I'm with 1and1 and my downtimes are minmal to a minute or
two late at night (or early mornin) between midnight and 6am and this doesnt
occur too often.

Martin
atdc


----- Original Message -----
From: "Leigh Jepson" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:40 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Is it possible to host a website on two servers as a
backup?


>
> 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-----
>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Duncan
>> Glendinning
>> Sent: 25 January 2007 13:33
>> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Subject: FN-FORUM: Is it possible to host a website on two servers as a
>> backup?
>>
>>
>> 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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