Mirror a site running server 2003 web services

I'm a network admin at a university and one of the departments is hosting their site on their own personal server running Server 2003 and Windows Web services. They've been asking me how would they go about mirroring their site in the event of a power loss intentional or otherwise. There are times during holiday periods where building maintenance will shut off power but they still want students to be able to get to their site. So they want to set up a mirror on another server in an office offsite.
I've done some research on the subject but I haven't been able to find anything dealing with mirroring Microsoft hosted sites.
Your input would be great.

Well you need to deal with the DNS as well, so a cheap solution would be a DNS based failover service such as that offered by zonedit.com: http://www.zonedit.com/doc/faq.html#fo
With a second hosting account elsewhere and that DNS failover service you will get a basic failover system for very little cost.
Just an idea for you





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Hello,
Thats why is much better to use a Windows Hosting provider, which will gurantee 99% uptime, and you will not worry if the power is down.
DNS approach have some limitations, because your site will be cached on user PCs and the DNS records will be updated after some period, which could be 24 hours.
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Hello,
Thats why is much better to use a Windows Hosting provider, which will gurantee 99% uptime, and you will not worry if the power is down.
DNS approach have some limitations, because your site will be cached on user PCs and the DNS records will be updated after some period, which could be 24 hours.
Regards


A lower TTL would address that issue, wouldn't it?





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Originally Posted by HostingASPNet


Hello,
Thats why is much better to use a Windows Hosting provider, which will gurantee 99% uptime, and you will not worry if the power is down.
DNS approach have some limitations, because your site will be cached on user PCs and the DNS records will be updated after some period, which could be 24 hours.
Regards


They didn't want to pay for the service. They could register their site as a sub-domain of the University's site and host it on their own server. I can't remember if we are authority on their DNS zone though of it someone else is doing DNS for them. The down side is they are responsible for maintaining it. We help them set up the server but that's where our responsibility ends. And of course as you mentioned, if they loose power, there is no failover setup.