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Old 02-15-2011, 05:49 PM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by ed_banger View Post
Why bother with a cron? Just run Round Robin DNS.
Depends what's considered a better result when one of the hosts goes down-

1. Master & backup model: The entire site goes down for a period, then comes back up in full once switched to the backup server.
1a. If it's the backup host that goes down, there is no interruption to service.

2. Round-robin model: Due to one of the servers being down, half the requests time out.
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