Re: [cobalt-users] Mirror

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/27/00 12:20 AM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Kris Dahl wrote:
> 
>> Honestly, a better way to do it would be to get multi-homed IPs and use BGP
>> routing, etc. so that if one fails, you just route the whole ip range across
>> the other connection.  You'll probably want to talk to your upstream
>> provider and see if they can help you with that.  You don't really need them
>> to be in two separate locations.
> 
> That's right, I forgot that osha has recalled all the backhoes in the
> world.

heh.

We'll you can certainly should a connection from multiple carriers.  That's
a given.

Honestly, what you should really do is co-locate in a datacenter that
provides all these services for you.  It doesn't make sense for most
companies to host their own servers--its just not affordable to purchase the
packup power, multiple carriers, fire supression, etc.

-k