I have several reseller packages and I would like to know if I can use one of them for some kind of "mirroring" (I apologize if it's not the correct term).

Basically I want that when a server is down the "mirror" site to be viewed.

I am not sure if this can be done by using several nameservers for that domain (2 nameservers for the main account and 2 others for the second account).

Thanks for any input.

toma,

You can do this under certain circumstances for certain accounts.

The way to do it is, let's day you want to mirror danishpastry.com.

You set up danishpastry.com 's DNS in a reliable third party DNS service like zoneedit.com or everydns.net or with a registrar like enom.com who have distributed, multiple DNS servers.

And then you set up round-robbin DNS :

put a A record for www - ip.of.server.1 and after that
A record for www - ip.of.server.2

and host danishpastry.com on both servers

So if your first server is down your second server will serve dp.com

For email you add multiple MX records with increasing preference

put 10 for the most reliable/primary server; put 20 or 100 for the secondary server

But if you are using a database site or an ecommerce site then you may find this hard to implement

Good luck
Balaji

Thank you very much for the information. I'll give it a try next week.

Thanks again.