auto-backup across the net

[Kari Chisholm]

I've enjoyed the discussion on this part of my initial post.  I think,
however, I'd probably use the phone.  

-kari.


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, I just can't remember what it is.
> 
>         Austin
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