Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ failover / backup solutions

[Rik Thomas <rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Erica Douglass wrote:

> I am starting a hosting company with a couple of RaQs. My concern is,
> what happens if one of the RaQs suddenly dies due to a memory or hard
> disk failure? I'd like to implement StaQware, but Sun discontinued that.
> To those of you who own web hosting companies: what do you do to prevent
> your customers' websites from going down? Just backing it up doesn't
> seem to be enough, as there would be a delay between finding out that
> the server was down and running in to swap out the RaQ with another one
> (since I am 40 miles away from my datacenter.) 
> 
> I'd like to hear any backup/failover/clustering solutions that you have
> implemented successfully with the RaQs.
> 
> Thanks,
> Erica

Some folks get an extra raq at lets say, rackshack or cobaltrack and 
automatically back up to those servers.  Rsync/FTP are some of the many 
ways to accomplish this task.  Automatically switching your site can cause 
problems if your primary DNS also goes down.  There are monitoring 
services out there that can page your or e-mail you when your server is 
down, some charge a fee and some are free, see the archives for that.  

<Plug>We also provide automated website backups and monitoring, as well as 
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