Failover between 2 WAN servers

epswat · 7 Jul 2008 at 09:25

Hope someone can help.
I have a setup where I am hosting commercial websites on one server. I want to setup a second server located in a seperate location, and want to have automated failover to the second server in the event of a failure with the first server.
However this is the thing I am having trouble figuring out. If the hosted website for server A is pointing to one public IP address, when the server fails, and the second server takes over, the DNS records for the world will still point to the first server, so although the second server will be live and hosting the website, no-one will be able to hit it, as the DNS records for my website will still be pointed to the downed server.

Any idea's?

Cheers

Elliott

oddjob62 · 7 Jul 2008 at 09:49

A simple solution would be to have you DNS hosted with a DDNS supplier (no-ip.com for instance)

slylittlefox · 12 Jul 2008 at 01:14

You need to have a cluster controller, running heartbeat/clustermonkey for Apache

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Andy100 · 12 Jul 2008 at 03:29

It depends what's gone down really.

If it's only the server that's gone down then provided the locations have an internal network schema you should be able to just route the traffic to the second location via your router.

epswat · 14 Jul 2008 at 14:29

Can I request this thread be closed, as it is pretty much dealt with by my other thread about DNS failover.

Thanks

Elliott