I'm looking to set up a fail-over server at a second location for our main DirectAdmin server. Our colo provider has already told us that they can easily reassign our server IP to our second server once the primary fails, but I'm wondering if anyone here has experience with this kind of thing, and how best to go about it?
We're currently running FC2 on the primary server. Would we need to somehow use a different filesystem for this stuff?
I don't actually need to have the entire system fail-over. It's fine with me if the second box only provides HTTP, MySQL, and accepts mail (which it will route to the primary once it's back up). Of course, having complete redundancy would be even niftier, but I'm guessing we'd have to reinstall the entire server for something like that, right?
We're currently running FC2 on the primary server. Would we need to somehow use a different filesystem for this stuff?
I don't actually need to have the entire system fail-over. It's fine with me if the second box only provides HTTP, MySQL, and accepts mail (which it will route to the primary once it's back up). Of course, having complete redundancy would be even niftier, but I'm guessing we'd have to reinstall the entire server for something like that, right?
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