Getting closer to 100% Uptime

I have been reading this forums, and also investigating how to get better uptime without paying very expensive hosting services.

Have read about load balancing, round robin DNS, etc. and am at present trying to put it in practice.

I think I have gotten it to work with the email, but not yet the web server.

What I have done up to now is to get two different servers on different Data Centers, even in different States (NY and Texas). I have just created a secondary DNS pointing to the second server.

When the primary server went down this morning, the email service continued on this domain, but couldn't get the http to funcition.

How can this be done without using round robin? I imagine that if I do it round robin using 2 servers, then when one of the servers is down, half the users will get an error page, right?

Any suggestions please to get web server redundancy?

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

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