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raymor · 05-17-2011, 11:56 AM

While we love Amerinoc and highly recommend them for many people's hosting requirements,
it sounds like you're looking for something special.

NONE of the hosts mentioned in this thread are in the business of High Availability (HA).
Amerinoc's VPS is probably the closest you are going to get, since it's a) running on an
HA cluster and b) from a top notch company, but the VPS itself is not set up for HA.

If you want greater than 99.99%, you're talking about a specific High Availability set up.
You may want to work with a qualified sysadmin who is NOT trying to sell you
something to advise you on what will really meet your needs, possibly setting up fail
over between two VPS hosted at two different data centers.

The HA stuff keeps the SERVER up, but a separate issue is the SITE - what if it's hacked,
you accidentally delete something important, etc. The SERVER could still be up while the
SITE is down. That's where you need a top notch, properly designed enterprise grade back
up and disaster recovery system in place. With the typical "gee, I guess we can copy the
files on to this old cassette tape drive and hopefully it'll all restore OK" approach, it will take
between hours and days to restore a hacked site, so you need something better than what
the web host throws in for free, or for an extra $5. You'll notice I said back up and
recovery system. Most people forget that you actually have to be able to recover a
working system in a reasonable time, and it has to be tested to actually work right when
you need to recover.

In fact, depending on the complexity of the server, a top notch back up and recovery system
like Clonebox could serve your HA needs as well. It makes an extra bootable copy of your
server, actually four extra copies of your whole server. When your server or host does go down,
Clonebox can take over serving your site. For most sites, Clonebox can take over in a
matter of minutes. That's for you to decide if a 5 - 10 minute switchover is OK in case your
main server goes down. If not, you want a pair of servers set up for HA, then the back up
and disaster recovery is a separate system.

05-17-2011, 11:56 AM
raymor Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,745	While we love Amerinoc and highly recommend them for many people's hosting requirements, it sounds like you're looking for something special. NONE of the hosts mentioned in this thread are in the business of High Availability (HA). Amerinoc's VPS is probably the closest you are going to get, since it's a) running on an HA cluster and b) from a top notch company, but the VPS itself is not set up for HA. If you want greater than 99.99%, you're talking about a specific High Availability set up. You may want to work with a qualified sysadmin who is NOT trying to sell you something to advise you on what will really meet your needs, possibly setting up fail over between two VPS hosted at two different data centers. The HA stuff keeps the SERVER up, but a separate issue is the SITE - what if it's hacked, you accidentally delete something important, etc. The SERVER could still be up while the SITE is down. That's where you need a top notch, properly designed enterprise grade back up and disaster recovery system in place. With the typical "gee, I guess we can copy the files on to this old cassette tape drive and hopefully it'll all restore OK" approach, it will take between hours and days to restore a hacked site, so you need something better than what the web host throws in for free, or for an extra $5. You'll notice I said back up and recovery system. Most people forget that you actually have to be able to recover a working system in a reasonable time, and it has to be tested to actually work right when you need to recover. In fact, depending on the complexity of the server, a top notch back up and recovery system like Clonebox could serve your HA needs as well. It makes an extra bootable copy of your server, actually four extra copies of your whole server. When your server or host does go down, Clonebox can take over serving your site. For most sites, Clonebox can take over in a matter of minutes. That's for you to decide if a 5 - 10 minute switchover is OK in case your main server goes down. If not, you want a pair of servers set up for HA, then the back up and disaster recovery is a separate system. __________________ For historical display only. This information is not current: support@bettercgi.com ICQ 7208627 Strongbox - The next generation in site security Throttlebox - The next generation in bandwidth control Clonebox - Backup and disaster recovery on steroids Last edited by raymor; 05-17-2011 at 12:02 PM..