ThePlanet.com Server : Interesting Idea? Please advise.

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This web hosting discussion started by Guest_rickkumar_* on 10 October 2003

I am trying to get some feedback on an interesting idea suggested to me on another board. This is in regard to our soon to be launched dating network that will use PHP/MySQL/Linux (similar sites match.com and AmericanSingles.com etc.)

IDEA:
If we get a dual Hard disk RAID server at RS & another dual hard disk RAID server at another host AND then link them via ZoneEdit.com’s DNS servers (i think it is free) using their (load balancing and failover) feature.

We can make one server primary and the other secondary back-up server.

i.e.

NS1.RS server.com —-> Main server
NS2.Other host server.com —-> secondary back-up server.

This way if one of the hard disks crash on main server, it can still be running using the other disk because of RAID feature.

If the entire main server goes down, the back-up server can automatically pick up the load and sites will still be online while main server is being restored.

We can secure the data in 3 simultaneous ways here: RAID in main, RAID in seconday back-up server, and real-time back-up from ‘main’ to ’seconday’ back-up server.

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