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

[Longterm Solutions]

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
Longterm Solutions LLC
bob at longtermsolutions.com
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http://www.longtermsolutions.com
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