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I should have said none of these hosts are SPECIFICALLY in the HA cluster business.
Some of them may be able to build an HA cluster if you specifically ask about it.
Some of them WILL sell you a "cluster" which isn't even really a cluster at all, but just
a bunch of servers will similar sites on them, not properly named, what we call a "cluster fuck".
Hosts in the adult business are generally in the business of providing acceptable quality
at the lowest possible price, so they use the cheapest way of doing things that "works",
including hiring the cheapest available sysadmins, and then marketing it to sound better
than the 100,000 other web hosts trying to get your business. Before you buy a "cluster"
or "high availability" solution from anyone, have the proposal reviewed by an independent
sysadmin with extensive experience first, so you know you are getting what you need,
not what the host knows how to cobble together or what they happen to have left over.
I hate to sound so negative about web hosts in general. There are some very good ones,
and there are a very few highly knowledgeable ones, but very few can become popular in
the price driven general hosting sector while paying $100 / hour or more for real engineers.
Most webmasters just aren't willing to pay for the expertise to do something like HA correctly.
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