FailOver Solution for website

g_paschoal · 06-28-2012, 03:13 PM

Guys....

I have a client that has a server which hosts a website and a postgre postgresql database.

He wants me to implement a fail over in case the server goes down another one take place.

Does anybody here has any experience to share regarding this? How to handle DNS for this ?

Thank You

kbp · 06-28-2012, 03:25 PM

I think the first question is how big is your budget?

g_paschoal · 06-28-2012, 03:42 PM

My client has a Virtual server with Linode with about 1GB RAM the site that is running is small.

And I guess we wants me to mirror with another linode server that he's going to buy.

Is anything else that might need to be done? Any other things that need to be paid ?

Thanks for the help

kbp · 06-28-2012, 04:52 PM

It seems that Linode offers IP failover, so you could possibly just purchase another node, keep your static content synced between them (rsync cron job?), set up datbase replication for postgresql and purchase/enable the IP failover option. Seem reasonable ?

g_paschoal · 06-28-2012, 06:04 PM

make sense... I will try this

thanks