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01-07-2007, 01:24 AM #1Newbie
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I need 100% uptime... Can I do that with 2-3 servers with the same info?
Hello there...
I have a website that receives a lot of traffic and one crucial thing is to have 100% uptime.
I think I can do that with 2-3 dedicated servers mirroring each other right and with multiple connections?
Please help me with how can I do that and which hosts would be willing to set up such thing for me.
Best,
Carl
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01-07-2007, 02:56 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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I think the simple response is no. But I'm sure someone knows of a way to do this.
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01-07-2007, 02:57 AM #3Problem Solver
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Are you hosting a database also?
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01-07-2007, 03:13 AM #4Web Hosting Evangelist
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Check out www.thegridlayer.com
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01-07-2007, 03:16 AM #5Retired Moderator
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Originally Posted by FrozenHost
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01-07-2007, 03:17 AM #6Web Hosting Evangelist
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Which is really not going to happen.
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01-07-2007, 03:28 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by FrozenHost
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01-07-2007, 04:15 AM #8WHT Addict
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100% is not possible, even if you could get five 9's with in your own setup, your upstream providers (colo host, networking) will be your greatest cause of failure.
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01-07-2007, 04:44 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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100% uptime impossible due to network packets loss...
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01-07-2007, 05:04 AM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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How do you define 100% uptime?
I'm not being silly here, but it's simply not possible. If your server runs a service, let's say Apache (your web server), and that server fails, some people will be directed to the down server prior to being redirected to the failover server. You will be effectively "down" but again, you must define what you mean by uptime.
For example, I host and manage a MySQL cluster that has a 6-15 second lag in failover components engaging and taking over IP and database duties. While most will find this time frame reasonable, some will not.
The time frame for failover depends on what you are failing over and the underlying technology that service runs on. For example, some SANs can have hardware failure in any one disk of the SAN and you will see relatively short (a few MS) lag in takeover.
While DNS records are often cached, and if the visitor of a website has a cached IP for a website, ie. the A record for www.domain.com is cached by AOL, it will not matter that you have failover DNS, it will continue to fail until AOL refreshes it's DNS cache of that IP. Since AOL is not wanting to check DNS for every domain upon each request, it caches, and so doing actually prevents failover of services based on DNS, which is every website. In order to avoid this you would require the ability to failover IP services among multiple Data Centers and again, you will always find some downtime associated with that and it's not practical to do this.
The shorter the "downtime" of a service that you want, the higher the price will be to accomplish it and the technical requirements will also grow, probably exponentially.
So, realistically define "downtime" and then you will be able build a solution that you can consider 100% failover and will provide you with the most reliable services you desire. No $10/month host will give you 100% uptime and no $100/month dedicated server can do it either. The claims of 100% uptime are myth, even considering the awesome power that these technologies give us, there is no perfect solution and problems/issues will happen and downtime is something to be minimized, but cannot be eliminated.SupportLayer - Enterprise Linux Server Management
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01-07-2007, 10:29 AM #11Eternal Member
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If you have a network that is up 100% of the time, what you can do is:
Redundant Load Balancers
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Redundant Web Servers; Database Servers; E-mail Servers, etc. [whatever you require]
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Redundant NAS
This is a very brief example but basically all of the storage is done on the two redundant NAS' keeping all of the other servers in-line. Obviously everything here comes at a price.
If you're looking for a control panel that can allow a similar setup to the above, you're going to want to look at H-Sphere. www.psoft.net
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01-07-2007, 12:27 PM #12Newbie
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Hello carlsp. Consider this solution (I was making use of it for two years): geographically distributed dedicated servers (California, Chicago, Atlanta) with mirrored (by mod_proxy, reverse caching) versions of the website, and round robin DNS by DNS Made Easy.
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01-07-2007, 12:30 PM #13Eternal Member
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Originally Posted by Guille
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01-07-2007, 12:40 PM #14Newbie
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Originally Posted by layer0Guille
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01-07-2007, 02:25 PM #15Web Hosting Rockstar
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The nearest uptime that's currently truely attainable is 99.999% which is provided by IBM, at a cost of above $1M USD per year.
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01-07-2007, 09:28 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by layer0
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01-07-2007, 09:38 PM #17Problem Solver
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A redundent nas would make creating a redundent email system much easier.
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01-08-2007, 01:34 AM #18Web Hosting Master
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100% uptime IS possible regardless of what you hear. Visit RagingWire.com for a facility without a single planned or UN-planned network cooling or power outage for the last 5 years straight. They also offer managed services and will lease machines if asked. They are a colo facility but will do much more when requested.
I would offer our facility except that (a) it is against forum rules to do so and (b) we typically do not heavily pursue managed hosting of this nature so we would be a useless option in this case.
Good luck and for the record: www.ragingwire.comLast edited by thecloudguy; 01-08-2007 at 01:41 AM.
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01-08-2007, 01:51 AM #19Junior Guru
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If they had 100% power uptime (that is what you mean i think) it doesnt mean they will have it in the future!
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01-08-2007, 01:57 AM #20Junior Guru Wannabe
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"We provide "Five Nines" (99.999%) availability with power and cooling....."
They don't even advertise 100% availability on the homepage.
Just because a host has a great record, it doesn't affect chaos theory and the Heisenberg principle of uncertainty, which limits the concept of 100% uptime/availability to the realm of Marketing Hype!!
This is why I asked the OP to clarify what "uptime" was, as we can have quite a confused conversation using such a vague term.SupportLayer - Enterprise Linux Server Management
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01-09-2007, 01:41 AM #21WHT Addict
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Originally Posted by layer0
In my experience even major backbone suppliers make routing mistakes, flash the firmwire in routers which require reboots, and make other dumb misconfiguration mistakes which cause outages. No ones perfect which means no network is 100% .
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01-09-2007, 03:58 AM #22Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by CALHOST-Adam
In any case, 100% uptime is always an illusion. You can architect pretty darn reliable (99.999%) solutions but even then there can be problems. Even Google's had issues and they far and away have the world's largest global cluster of servers - well, if cluster is quite the right way to think of what google has :>
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01-09-2007, 04:11 AM #23Location = SoapBox
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does the original poster actually need 100% uptime?
First off, no one can guarantee 100% uptime nor can they offer any sort of reasonable SLA against this value.
I think the best available right now is 6 to 7 9's - and as Jonathan pointed out, the costs for this are enormous...
From my experience, most people searching for 100% uptime would be happy with 4 9's (as those seeking a higher uptime performance the 4 9's would not be posting on wht nor would they be contacting the average company even mentioned here). This is certainly attainable within a reasonable budget - but, it is important to be done correctly. layer0 is correct in saying that redundant LB'ers, server nodes with as many redundant componants as possible as well as redundant shared storage arrays will greatly improve an environments capabilities of providing superior, reliable uptime of all services...www.cartika.com
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01-09-2007, 07:29 AM #24Eternal Member
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Originally Posted by prickett233
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Originally Posted by CALHOST-Adam
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