Re: [libreoffice-website] offsite website backup

Hey Christian

I already have a VPS setup which I use and host 4 sites with at the data 
center i work with. Here we have redundancy like no other, 4 fiber lines 
from 2 different providers, 2 lines each provider. so if something does 
go down, we switch to our immediate backup. each floor as well of our DC 
has 2 emergency generators in case of electrical outages, and can run 
the DC for 6 days.

I am more then willing to run a back up site on my vps. I am sure it 
would be much more effective to either have a round robin DNS setup and 
use both sites, or use one then change the DNS entry. What do you think. 
I could rsync the site on the main server to ensure that its up to date 
and a 2nd push of updates to my vps wont be necessary.

On 01/08/2011 12:47, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Jonathan, *,
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Aquilina
> <eagles051387@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > [...]
> > Is there an offsite server based outside germany or anywhere else in the
> > world that hosts a backup of the website in case main server needs to go
> > down for maintenance it falls over to the backup server?
> Offsite? No. Or depends on how you define it. We got backups and can
> set up a replacement rather quickly when the current server goes AWOL,
> however all those machines are at the same hosting company, so when
> that hosting company exhibits a problem, we're cut for that time.
> (pootle-server would be at different location, but we couldn't access
> our backups to set up a replacement)
>
> We're currently in the process of defining an automatic fallover.
>
> So again in clear words:
> * We have backups, and have servers that can act as a stand in.
> * Currently setting up those replacements would be a manual process
> (copying from the backups to a replacement machine, and adjusting DNS
> entries)
> * We are not prepared for the hosting-company to have general network
> failures (but they surely will be very fast to solve those anyway)
> * Making an automatic fallback is already in the works.
>
> from your other post:
> > The website is crucial that it doesnt go down, especially if upgrades to the server the site
> > is currently hosted on is needed
> Oh, the machine has undergone several updates already that demanded a
> reboot, but downtimes caued by a reboot are so short, it's not worth
> taking action...
>
> > what would the LO/ TDF in general do if the site went
> > down?
> choose one of the remaining servers as replacement, play in a current
> backup on that server, change DNS entry.
>
> ciao
> Christian


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