That was kind of my point! If your site is big enough to require DR facilities, you can use DR to minimise (or negate) downtime.
If your site doesn't need DR facilities, what does a small amount of offline time overnight matter? On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:12 PM, KeidrickP <keidri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jamie, > I don't think the OP has a DR database in place, or they probably wouldn't > be posting this question. > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Jamie Fraser <jamie.fra...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Or if you aren't using DB partitioning - upgrade your DR database, bring >> that online, once its up, take your production system offline, upgrade that >> and then bring it online again. >> >> None of these are particularly difficult issues for large sites as they >> use multiple servers (hundreds and thousands in the case of Google) and for >> a very small site with 1 app & 1 DB server, it isn't a problem having a few >> hours downtime overnight. >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Jamie Fraser <jamie.fra...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> On any site which uses load balancing, you'll often use database >>> partitioning too, so stick users to a particular web / db server combination >>> and upgrade groups of servers at a time. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Vitaly Maslevskiy < >>> vitaly.maslevs...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Sounds good, but, typical situation. DB Schema changed, we have to >>>> update dll's >>>> in which order binaries/DBSchema have to be updated. If we change schema >>>> first, >>>> all apps is not 100% up. Only application updated first and "down" >>>> until first request >>>> has valid state. >>>> >>>> Or? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2009/12/8 Gunawan Hadikusumo <john.hadikus...@gmail.com>: >>>> > you need load balancing...... 2 or 3 more IIS server run simultanously >>>> > >>>> > so you could update those server one by one without distrupting the >>>> current >>>> > connected user. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:25 PM, jack me <reachtoj...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> Hi, >>>> >> >>>> >> Is it possible to upload the dll or files without downtime of >>>> website. >>>> >> just for sake of example, if gmail upload some thing new in the >>>> website like >>>> >> chatting facility. After that extended the chat facility with video. >>>> >> According to me this is without the downtime of the gmail. in same >>>> manner, >>>> >> If i want to make any updation in my website without making down the >>>> site >>>> >> how we can achieve this in .net. >>>> >> >>>> >> Thanks, >>>> >> Jack >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Keidrick Pettaway > > http://kpettaway.com >
