From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Feb 19 18:32:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.netsol.net (mail.netsol.net [216.179.148.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B770037B491 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:32:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from fire ([63.194.3.101]) by mail1.netsol.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id net; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:42:51 -0800 Message-ID: <002e01c09ae5$5d6b3830$6503c23f@XGforce.com> Reply-To: "jl" From: "jl" To: , References: <20010219184709.A68789@wjv.com> Subject: Re: Redundancy... Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:32:24 -0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You can also use eCluster, a load balance and fail safe cluster software to fail safe between several distant locations that are mirroring each other or load balance and mirroring each other. check out: www.xgforce.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Vermillion To: Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:47 PM Subject: Re: Redundancy... > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:03:04PM -0500, Drew J. Weaver thus spoke: > > > On a side note, make sure that the ISP that you co-locate has gas > > powered generators as well as backups protecting your servers, > > or it wont really do you much good to have it hosted out of some > > guy's basement =) > > Gas powered generators are typically on the small side. Serious > generators are typically diesel. To me the best way is to find an > ISP who is co-located inside a carrier [we've done that with our > ISP], and rely on humoungous UPS and the 1MW+ Cat generators. Not > the cheapest but IMO the best. Prices aren't the cheapest - but > not that bad either. eg a 1 RU server with 1.5Mbit guaranteed > bandwith on our 100MB uplink to the OC192 - is $850 month. > > It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish and how > critical the servers are. > > > This may or may not be an option, but segregate the resources that > > much be live 24x7 (probably not your office client server > > applications) and co-locate those. Don't bother having a local copy > > of them since it is probably just as easy to update the content at > > your co-located site. > > > > Then the only thing you keep local is your interoffice lcient server > > stuff shich if the building goes down, nobody is live to use anyway. > > > We would want to co-locate 4-5 boxes (all FreeBSD & 1 NT). One > > box is a DB server (MySQL) and the others are web servers. We > > currently are no co-locating. All of our boxes are currently under > > our roof along with the bandwidth (2 T-1's). As we found out, the > > biggest point of failure that we have is if there is an extended > > power outage at our location. > > > > > -- > Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message