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how are you quickly failing over from one to another?

by kunalmodi 14y ago

monsenhor 14y ago
We work with 3 providers. Today 2 of then go down. Just Linode is ok now.
- kunalmodi 14y ago
  ironically, we moved away from linode last month because they kept doing maintenance and turning off our machines without telling us
  - citricsquid 14y ago
    really? I've noticed an increase in maintenance with Linode recently but they've always been really great with notice, so much so I am consistently surprised. If there is ever going to be planned downtime I've got an email at least a week in advance and it gives me the option to migrate my linode to another server at my own convenience if their schedule isn't compatible with my needs. Do you not get these emails and options?
    - kunalmodi 14y ago
      For the scheduled ones, I think I did receive some prior notice, I might have gotten particularly unlucky with a bunch of emergency/network/etc. maintenance affecting many of my servers simultaneously.
  - raverbashing 14y ago
    Really? I had 2 (short, scheduled) downtimes with Linode. Since 2009
  - ch0wn 14y ago
    Interesting. We moved away from VPS.net for a similar reason. There were multiple occasions where hosts got shut down and support couldn't tell us the reason for it. Since we're using hand-rolled virtualization on top of a few rented servers, we're basically problem-free.
  - tasaro 14y ago
    Linode sends out notices for every single maintenance event, which includes both emergency and scheduled events. The maintenance you experienced last month is explained here: http://blog.linode.com/2012/06/13/xen-security-advisories-and-how-we-handled-them/ http://blog.linode.com/2012/06/13/xen-security-advisories-an...
  - wizard_2 14y ago
    My problem with them is they don't provide RFOs (Request for outage) because they can't give away any of the "propitiatory secretes" about their setup. I'd like to know what happened when it effects me. Also when it comes to replacing hardware or preforming maintenance, their priorities wont always line up with mine.
ww520 14y ago
If your site has little dependency among itself, then you can use DNS round robin to include IP's from all hosting companies.
- rlpb 14y ago
  If you use DNS round robin, then you pretty much guarantee that everyone will be affected if just one hosting company is down. DNS round robin is not the tool for this job.

how are you quickly failing over from one to another?

monsenhor 14y ago

We work with 3 providers. Today 2 of then go down. Just Linode is ok now.

kunalmodi 14y ago
ironically, we moved away from linode last month because they kept doing maintenance and turning off our machines without telling us
- citricsquid 14y ago
  really? I've noticed an increase in maintenance with Linode recently but they've always been really great with notice, so much so I am consistently surprised. If there is ever going to be planned downtime I've got an email at least a week in advance and it gives me the option to migrate my linode to another server at my own convenience if their schedule isn't compatible with my needs. Do you not get these emails and options?
  - kunalmodi 14y ago
    For the scheduled ones, I think I did receive some prior notice, I might have gotten particularly unlucky with a bunch of emergency/network/etc. maintenance affecting many of my servers simultaneously.
- raverbashing 14y ago
  Really? I had 2 (short, scheduled) downtimes with Linode. Since 2009
- ch0wn 14y ago
  Interesting. We moved away from VPS.net for a similar reason. There were multiple occasions where hosts got shut down and support couldn't tell us the reason for it. Since we're using hand-rolled virtualization on top of a few rented servers, we're basically problem-free.
- tasaro 14y ago
  Linode sends out notices for every single maintenance event, which includes both emergency and scheduled events. The maintenance you experienced last month is explained here: http://blog.linode.com/2012/06/13/xen-security-advisories-and-how-we-handled-them/ http://blog.linode.com/2012/06/13/xen-security-advisories-an...
- wizard_2 14y ago
  My problem with them is they don't provide RFOs (Request for outage) because they can't give away any of the "propitiatory secretes" about their setup. I'd like to know what happened when it effects me. Also when it comes to replacing hardware or preforming maintenance, their priorities wont always line up with mine.

ww520 14y ago

If your site has little dependency among itself, then you can use DNS round robin to include IP's from all hosting companies.

rlpb 14y ago
If you use DNS round robin, then you pretty much guarantee that everyone will be affected if just one hosting company is down. DNS round robin is not the tool for this job.