[FX.php List] [OFF] Looking for information about load-balancing

[Nick]

The cheapest solution is to just run backup jobs and (s)ftp them away to
that other location regularly.  Have additional filemaker server software
loaded and ready to turn on if needed... but regardless it will be a small
hassle.

There are also solutions like these (but seem to be designed to work on
LANs only):
http://www.neverfailgroup.com/solutions/high-availability.html
I saw them mentioned on http://www.hostfilemaker.com/Custom when I was
looking for this...
I was at a filemaker developer convention in 2008 and I think they may be
the same company that was there, but not sure.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:

> I have a large client to whom I lease servers; they've expressed concern
> about what might happen if a catastrophic outage were to occur at my
> hosting company here--if, for example, the phone lines citywide went down,
> taking out all Internet connections for the city or the region.
>
> I mentioned a load-balancing system to them, but don't have much knowledge
> about how they work, the cost involved, etc. My suggestion to them was for
> us to possibly have a redundant system in a 2nd location somewhere in the
> US, and use a load-balancing system to roll their site to the second host
> if any failure should occur.
>
> If anyone has information about this, I would appreciate hearing about it;
> there may be others interested on this forum, so replying in the forum
> might be useful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Patin
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