Well maybe if they have 2 hosts that they can use, and have only one be live and the other just be sitting there getting updates to transactions that are processed. Then when (A) went down (B) could come up. The hosts would most likely need to be several hunred miles away from eachother though.
Douglas Brown Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 11:40 AM Subject: RE: Geographical redundancy? > Sure they can. It is hard and expensive, but yes, they can. > > -Matt > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Douglas Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 11:38 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: Geographical redundancy? > > > > I would not get into something like that with a client. If you do, > > you are putting your head on the chopping block due to the fact > > that not all disasters or outages can be avoided. Like the poster > > before said, you need something like disaster clause > > > > > > > > > > > > Douglas Brown > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Al Musella, DPM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 11:04 AM > > Subject: Geographical redundancy? > > > > > > > I have to put together a proposal for a medical office > > management > > > application which will be used in an ASP (application service > > provider - > > > not the MS language:) model.. one of the requirements is that > > the > > > application has to be hosted in such a way that a major disaster > > (natural > > > or otherwise) in 1 location can't cause the loss of any data, > > and only a > > > small (maybe an hour) downtime for the application. > > > After the Sept. 11 tragedy, my websites had connectivity > > problems on > > > and off for a few days. We also had 24 hours of downtime when a > > hurricane > > > knocked down a bunch of telephone poles near my ISP a few years > > ago. > > > For this application, that wouldn't have been > > acceptable. > > > > > > I have no idea how to approach it. Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > Al > > > a1webs.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > At 06:08 PM 5/10/2002 -0400, Justin Greene wrote: > > > >I Have to agree. Hardware based clustering for the front > > end... and either > > > >SQL Enterprise or Veritas on the backend to handle the database > > cluster. > > > >Very solid configuration. We have been hardware clustering CF > > with Alteons > > > >for over 3 years. Just need to keep sessions in the DB and > > make sure the > > > >web boxes keep the file systems synched. > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
