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

[Bob Patin]

On Jun 15, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> So the goal is 100% uptime and to keep the serving business in-house, eh?

Well, pretty much; my plan is to put the redundant system with another company somewhere on the left coast... some lesser host... :)
> 
> I have used a DNS failover service from DNSMadeEasy.com, although 
> other firms offer the same service.  Your DNS is managed by the firm 
> who polls the availability of the target servers. If one server goes 
> offline, it switched to the other.

Well, that's really all I need then; I'll check into it.

> 
> Two issues: how long does it take to detect the downed server? Their 
> web site says 2-4 minutes.

Good enough for these guys though...

> That is not 100% uptime. Also, you would 
> have to have a server running somewhere else, probably at a colo 
> facility. You can still consider it your servers.
> 
> Hey, here's an idea...you can run your secondary on my servers and I 
> can run my secondary on yours.

What kind of bandwidth do you have? They have about 3 million static HTML pages; the guy uses Apple Remote to update his pages, but I don't know if another host will let him do that (he leases these machines from me).

Let's talk offline, maybe we can work something out.

BP

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