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

date posted 25th January 2007 13:25

hardware failover? yeah I'll admit thats not cheap! although if worst case happened and your host's building imploded, you'd be a bit stuffed ;)

FWIW we tested the DNS failover by getting the system to monitor a url on FH then deleting the page, it took 30 seconds to switch to the US server but about 3mins to switch back once we re-uploaded the page on FH. Not bad I dont think.




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>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.
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>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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