Mirroring/Site backup question...

I originally posted this in the hosting Request forum, but was told it should be better posted here. You can get the general idea of what I need to do. All help is greatly appreciated.




Hello, in light of a recent crisis with my webhost, and me having to upload over 500megs over 56k again. I decided to look for a back-up mirroring server.

Any control panel will work, I am not sure of the bandwidth requirments as I hope this never has to be used, all it mainly will deal with is data upload from my other server. It will be hosting about 6 domains.

If the main server goes down, I either want this one to take control, or just display an error page. I need it to handle my e-mail while the main server is down.

I also need to know, how (if possible) it is to have this backup server constantly mirrioring my main server (alla when there is a change on my main server, it is rewritten and reflected on the backup server).

I also need to know, how I can make the backup server take control when my other server goes down. The only way I can think of how to do this is to write a script that runs on a third server (this I have availible through my domain register) that checks if the main server is running before sending traffic to that server, but that would only work with HTTP and FTP traffic, and not e-mail which is more important.

 

 

 

 

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