[Gllug] Geographcial server failover

[Andrew Farnsworth]

Darren Beale wrote:

>Hello
>
>I'm a bit out of my depth and would like some advice please.
>
>Later this year my company will be launching a web service that will
>be collecting data 24/7 and which needs to be available 100% (or near
>as poss) of the time. Local clustering and availability is well
>covered in the plenty of documentation and books out there. However
>when it comes to balancing across geographically separate locations
>when one location goes down, the other picks up ALL of the requests,
>then this is not covered in as much detail, if at all.
>
>  
>
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Darren,
  If this is a company project which you stated, this would be a good 
time to bring in some experts (like IBM) as they handle things like this 
all the time and have the issue solved.  Doing it yourself will be 
re-inventing the wheel, and while that is fun, it is usually less 
expensive to bring in an expert, especially in the long run.

Andrew Farnsworth
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