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

[Bob Patin]

Thanks, but that doesn't solve what I need.

I have a ton of FileMaker Server machines here, so that's not the issue; the issue is that they want zero downtime, and their website includes literally millions of static HTML pages (the reason is complicated); although it's a FileMaker-powered site, the biggest issue is that their site itself involves somewhere between 2-3 million HTML pages.

The biggest issue isn't so much hardware or software, but the possibility of a region-wide Internet outage, for which no amount of server room prevention can remedy. In that case, it could be hours before service is restored, as was the case when someone cut a huge trunk line in the South somewhere, cutting Internet service for several states for quite some time (fortunately I wasn't part of that outage).

Because they can't tolerate even a half-hour outage, I'm searching for a device that would roll them to another server pair in another location in the US; it'll mean their maintaining 2 sets of HTML files, but they're wanting it, so i'm trying to find it...

Thanks,

Bob Patin
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On Jun 14, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Nick wrote:

> 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:
> 

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