strategy for servers going down
I am thinking of renting two linodes in two different location (one in Atlanta and one in Dallas for instance) and having my primary DNS set to the first linode and my secondary DNS set to the second linode. Is it a good idea? Since I have limited experience in that area, what issues should I be looking into.
Thanks
p.s.
This is a follow-up to the the Atlanta servers being down this morning, which took down my service for a while. I don't want to have co-workers and guys around me hovering my desk every five minutes and asking me in condescending fashion if the website is back and whether they can do anything to help me out of this embarrassing situation.
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What you're looking for can't really be done with the level of control you have over the network. You can do round robin requests, as in
etc, etc, etc.
This is a pretty big topic though, I'd suggest doing some reading on how to run a highly available web site.