Re: Handling Site Outages

["Milan Zdimal" <milanz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oops. My apologies for misspelling your name Jon!

On 2/19/07, Milan Zdimal <milanz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> We did DNS fail over at the previous company I work for -- DynIP. They
> provide a service that monitors your connection. If you have a site
> outage DynIP will detect that your connection is down and will change your
> A/CNAME and even MX records to point to somewhere else. This works
> relatively well and is used by a number of large companies. There are a few
> draw backs however:
>
> 1. There is a 1-5 minute delay before your DNS entries are actually
> changed to ensure that you are really offline (just in case it was a hick
> up)
> 2. DNS caching. If someone visited your site before the outage they may
> have your old IP address cached for several minutes and in extreme cases
> hours.
>
> If you're interested in learning more about this visit their site:
> www.dynip.com. They don't aggressively advertise the fail over feature on
> the site so give them a call. Ask for Mark Bisson or David Grant and tell
> them Milan sent you. =)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Milan Zdimal
>
> Home Office: (519) 541-1905
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>
>  On 2/19/07, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'd be interested in hearing how folks here handle site-outages.
> >
> > For example when a system fails catastrophically or there's a power
> > outage
> > or whatever.
> >
> > Do you have a fall-back web site - and if so, how do you handle the DNS
> > switching involved?
> >
> > Jon Paris
> > Partner400
> >
> > www.Partner400.com <http://www.partner400.com/>
> >
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