Most of my clients have single shared hosting accounts for their web sites, in most cases all that is needed and am running happily with several UK providers including our own esteemed David Owen (www.printlineadvertising.com)
But for one client, whose reliance on email particularly is critical, we could do with having a backup site which can be switched to quickly should anything go wrong with the normal server.
I’m sure I could sign up at another provider, re-direct the nameservers and all would work - but it could take 24hrs or more.
Does anyone know of a quicker way to instigate an operational backup site?
Most of my clients have single shared hosting accounts for their web
sites, in most cases all that is needed and am running happily with
several UK providers including our own esteemed David Owen
(www.printlineadvertising.com)
But for one client, whose reliance on email particularly is
critical, we could do with having a backup site which can be
switched to quickly should anything go wrong with the normal server.
I’m sure I could sign up at another provider, re-direct the
nameservers and all would work - but it could take 24hrs or more.
Does anyone know of a quicker way to instigate an operational backup site?
Is this to cope with loss of the site (as in buildings) or in case of
machine failure?
If it’s to handle machine failure, then running the webserver in its
OS can be moved between Virtual hosts that run under VMware and
others.
If it’s to handle the loss of a building, then the public DNS is
going to be a problem for web traffic, but not for email receipt. MH
DNS records can handle that.
I’m used to working with these sorts of systems on expensive systems
on intranets, but not on the Internet.
David
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David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK.
HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk)
email@hidden www.ivdcs.co.uk