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Chit Chat / Re: Lifan-moto is temporarily down
« on: June 01, 2008, 01:25:52 PM »
Hey Almon,
Actually, in my opinion, this could have easily have been avoided by H1. Their fault was relying on "local" backup scenerios. It only costs slightly more to have a redundant set of servers in an alternate location to avoid these types of problems.
I owned an ISP for several years and I had multiple locations in Indiana as far apart as Sellersburg and Fort Wayne. All the systems were 100% redundant and in the 15 years I owned the site, I never once had a failure that knocked it out. In fact, I had a car run into the server room at one time and take it out completly and there wasn't so much as a single complaint from any of my customers.
I also personally use two different hosting sites myself for my mission critical sites and I control the DNS settings for each. I periodically swap my name servers to make sure both sites are working correctly, as well.
Just a thought.
Bill
Actually, in my opinion, this could have easily have been avoided by H1. Their fault was relying on "local" backup scenerios. It only costs slightly more to have a redundant set of servers in an alternate location to avoid these types of problems.
I owned an ISP for several years and I had multiple locations in Indiana as far apart as Sellersburg and Fort Wayne. All the systems were 100% redundant and in the 15 years I owned the site, I never once had a failure that knocked it out. In fact, I had a car run into the server room at one time and take it out completly and there wasn't so much as a single complaint from any of my customers.
I also personally use two different hosting sites myself for my mission critical sites and I control the DNS settings for each. I periodically swap my name servers to make sure both sites are working correctly, as well.
Just a thought.
Bill