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

date posted 25th January 2007 13:43


What you need is global load balancing to work well.

DNS simply doesn't work due to differing browsers/os/ISP caching issues.


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On 25 Jan 2007, at 13:31, Duncan Glendinning wrote:

>
> 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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