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Your first option. A VIP with a heartbeat failover setup. DNS is useful when you have multiple end points and need to push more BW than a single LB/box can ha
by modoc 12y ago
Your first option. A VIP with a heartbeat failover setup. DNS is useful when you have multiple end points and need to push more BW than a single LB/box can handle. But for anything under ~5 Gbit/sec, the Active-Hot Standby setup works great.
- lobster_johnson 12y agoOut of interest, how would you do this on a VPS like Digital Ocean, where IPs cannot be reassigned?
- modoc 12y agoYou'd need some place that allows for VIPs I think... I've never used Digital Ocean. Sorry.