auto-backup across the net
Jeff Zucker
jeff at vpservices.com
Fri Jun 21 20:47:24 CDT 2002
Austin Schutz wrote:
>>>Here's the situation. I'm building a mission-critical web-based
>>>database. It's hosted on a server at, say,
>>>http://www.serverone.foo/bigdata.cgi.
>>>
>>>If that server goes down, even for an hour, I want to be able to
>>>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>>>immediately tell my clients to switch to another server (at another
>>>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
> This part of the question has yet to be answered as far as I
> can tell. Of course I might have just spaced through the answer.
> How do you tell the clients? Presumably there's a simple way to
> send a redirect in a cgi
If the server is down, it's a bit hard to redirect with a cgi on the
server :-).
--
Jeff
TIMTOWTDI
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