How important is it for you to be 100% up? If you can do with, say, 30min downtime if something fails, all you may need is a virtual server that is regularly backed up and can be brought back to the last stored state.
If you need 100% uptime, you need to indeed put several servers in place and failover (or at minimum a load balancer that notices when one machine is down). And you need good monitoring in place to identify when "shit" happened. Cheers, Silvia. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Phil Sim <philip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, we're finally moving to put in place a redundant server and > failover. > We've running a local primary server and a redundant server on rackspace. > I'm interested in what other people are doing in terms of failover. Are you > automating it, and if so how are you doing it? Semi-automation? Manual? Not > a lot of system experience here, so any advice welcomed. > phil > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en >
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