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

date posted 25th January 2007 13:25

Surely the best way to reduce downtime if you're suffering with 1and1 is to
move somewhere else? I can recommend Gyron Internet (gyron.net) who sent me
an email last week warning of possible downtime. I meant to schedule the
downtime on my monitoring server, but forgot, not that it mattered as they
did the work without any downtime at all.

Of course if the downtime is caused by the site itself, it doesn't matter who
is hosting your server.

On Thursday 25 January 2007 14:00, Leigh Jepson wrote:
> 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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> > Subject: RE: RE: FN-FORUM: Is it possible to host a website on two
> > servers as a backup?
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> > >What you're talking about is failover - which isn't really an option
> > >unless you want to spend loads.
> >
> > I think our service only costs us about $35 a year...
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