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

date posted 25th January 2007 13:07

Yes, but dns failover is 'proper' failover - 'proper' failover isn't cheap.
By proper I mean people not even noticing a server is down, not having 10
mins of downtime while dns tries to sort itself out.

Leigh Jepson
Midnight Software

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> >What you're talking about is failover - which isn't really an option
> >unless you want to spend loads.
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> I think our service only costs us about $35 a year...
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