[Gllug] Redundant hosting recommendation

[Andy McGarty]

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:57:17 -0000, Simon Perry <gllug at si-designs.co.uk>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to come up with a hosting solution for a new site that offers
> 100% uptime but not having done this before I don't know what solutions
> are available? What I have come up with so far is;
>
> 1) Two dedicated servers in separate data centres with a 3rd party round
> robin DNS service
>
> 2) A managed redundant hosting solution. Can anyone recommend a supplier?
>
> 3) Suggestions please
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
If you are happy with about 10 minutes of down time zonedit.com is a cheap  
solution.  It will do your DNS for you (and you can have multiple DNS  
servers) and it gives out server A's IP until it fails and then it gives  
server B's IP.  Or it will do round robin if you want.

I was talking to a chap from www.wagerworks.com recently and they said a  
budget of 4k would be needed to give almost no down time.  Can't remember  
the solution he proposed.

The other problem is making sure how you test its down.  It can't just be  
ping as it could have a failed service.  The zonedit uses http to check a  
certain value is in the web page returned.

Andy




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