Does anyone know how to redirect your traffic immediately to other websites (different web host) when the primary server is down? I heard it could be done with the dns thingy, but I'm not sure. Any ideas? Thanks
This might help http://www.neustarultraservices.biz/solutions/traffic.html They are DNS Traffic Management tools.
interesting, but i'm not sure if this is possible, if there's an app that can work as a web server failover. /me waiting for reply of those who has an experience on this.
You can do this automatically via DNS, but only if you have the required control on your DNS servers. Just setup a monitoring script that changes the DNS record to point to the backup server, in case the primary is down.
Thanks for the replies!!! DNS Traffic Management tools cost money and i just started, not so willing to pay again for tools. I'm currently using a shared hosting which means that I can't use those sort of script ,right? I saw on the web some free secondary dns host, is that the same? I'm kinda confused with all these DNS stuff!!
u may use roundrobin feature in bind, just enter multiple A records with ip numbers and a ttl of 15 seconds, and synch your web/db stuff on all locations.