Best way to have failover/backup?

[daknight]

Hi there,

We are at stage where we need to have a backup or failover in case the primary goes down. We were thinking about 2 options:

1. DNS switch over to secondary server if primary goes down. The primary server and sec. server is a mirror
2. Sec. is not a mirror. It just contains a line "Hello, our server is down right now. Please visit later"

Are these two alternatives good (easy?) enought or do you guys have better suggestion?

 

[24x7server]

Hello,

Yes, You can setup this with the dnsmadeeasy services. With this services you can switch your DNS to second server.

dnsmadeeasy.com/services/dns-failover-system-monitoring/

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

cPanel currently supports clustering for DNS purposes only. There is support to host your databases on a remote MySQL server, however beyond that, there are no native options that allow for management of services across multiple servers. I recommend searching our forums for "mirroring" and "high availability" for custom solutions that other users may have implemented. There are lots of discussions about the best ways to do this. EX:

Load Balancing Between 2 cPanel Servers
Load Balancing
Load Balancing Servers
cPanel Load Balanced Servers

Also, feel free to add your input to the following active feature requests:

Active Redundancy or High Availability
Build in Load Balancing

Thank you.

 

[electric]

2. Sec. is not a mirror. It just contains a line "Hello, our server is down right now. Please visit later"

This is a paid value-added option we offer to our customers. For $x month, we will set them up with a 3rd party DNS management service (dnsmadeeasy, et al) and then create another small cpanel account for them on a server in another datacenter.

So if their main server goes down, then it will automatically fail-over to their "Our website is temporarily out of service" message until their server comes back up.

The system works well, but it's a manual process to set it up for each customer who wants it.

We run our own DNS Cluster (using cpanel DNS-Only), so I wish there was a way we could do this totally in-house without needing the 3rd party DNS service provider like dnsmadeeasy. But we don't have a monitoring system that can automatically change the DNS for effected accounts... (If anyone knows of one, please let me know.)

 

[gnusys]

Hi,

Please checkout support.sysally.net/projects/ndeploy/wiki/NDeploy_cluster_setup as it may fulfill your requirement in an easy way.

Thanks,