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Originally Posted by raymor
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.
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Quality post. Yea, I do want HA but I also don't want it to cost $3000/month. I know there are setups that if hardware on 1 server fails, then another one starts serving the site within 1-2 mins. That'd be cool. Any suggestions for that? My budget is $100-$1000/month.
Also, I'm mostly concerned about hardware failures. Network uptime are extremely strong almost everywhere because datacenters got that shit on lock. As far as software, I also understand that a good admin can get that shit onlock too. The hardware failures are the fucking pain in the ass. Hosts brag that "we guarantee 1 hour hardware replacements, isnt that awesome". No FUCK YOU, that's fucking horrible, that means my site will be down for up to 1 hour!