Setting up mirror sites

How do you do it?

[u4eas]

I want to mirror our corp website on another server.
(One is in cali one in florida )

If my primary site www.foo.com is in FL and it goes down, I want the server in cali to mirror it. So people dont ever notice if it goes down.

How is this set up?

thx-

u4ea

[tedster]

I have only one client who plays in this realm, and I leave the technology to their IT department.

What I know is (and the terminology alone may help in your research) that you're talking about "mirror site fail over". As a rough sketch, this involves two main functions: monitoring the primary data center's health, and seamlessly redirecting traffic to the mirror if signs of trouble arise.

An added feature can be "load balancing" which doesn't wait for a failure, but instead distributes traffic between the data centers on a regular basis and continually monitors factors like latency and packet failures.

There are some major companies that offer outsourced solutions for this kind of thing. Being faint of heart myself when it comes to this league of heavy duty technology, I know I would explore that kind of service first.