[FX.php List] [OFF] Solution for occasional outage....Redux

[Bob Patin]

Jonathan,

Having been in the hosting business for almost 9 years now, it amazes  
me that any hosting facility would be vulnerable to something like a  
blown fuse.

If my power should go out here, as it did the other night for almost  
an hour, my UPS devices kick in; they only last about 16 minutes, but  
within 30 seconds my backup generator kicks on, as it did the other  
night.

I suppose a UPS device *could* theoretically fail, but I don't think  
they use fuses, and my circuit breaker panels definitely don't have  
any fuses. Might be time to shop for a new colo... :)

I've tried to find an easy way to do some sort of load balancing, so  
that I could set up redundant servers, but haven't found anything that  
I could install and use without spending more time than I'm willing to  
devote to it...

Curious to see if anyone has a solution...

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
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On Feb 13, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> My colocation facility went off line again today for about 20  
> minutes. Last time, it was in November.  Both times, the cause was  
> reported as a "blown fuse" on a power distribution strip.
>
> When my servers go dark, I lose my whole operation: web, mail and  
> FileMaker serving .
>
> Do others experience outages like this, for this reason or any other  
> reason?  Does anyone have redundant servers at a different location?  
> I'm willing to consider this route, but the expense seems very high  
> for a load balancing type of set up.
>
> Alternatively, I could fire up a server here at my office, but that  
> best case, the data would  be a day old  ...and I would have to  
> redirect DNS to the new IP for each domain.  It would longer to do  
> that than it takes the outage to resolve itself.  The, I'd have to  
> switch it back.
>
> I could use some seasoned advise.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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> Jonathan Schwartz
> Exit 445 Group
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