2 hosts - 1 domain - Page 2

Pimpen 2010 · 11-08-2003, 01:18 PM

Thats what I have lol, 200mb diskspace and 2 gb bandwidth

webcentive · 11-09-2003, 07:07 PM

I am guessing you are trying to do the same thing I am. Which is how I got to this page tonight. I want two completely different web hosts for the same domain. I was planning on having 2 DNS pointers to the primary and 2 to the secondary. I haven't found a 100% reliable web host in five years so I figure two 90%'s might get me a virtual 100% uptime. I was down 12 hours this weekend. It's painful not to be up. If the DNS server is down for one it should timeout and go to the other provider. Anyone try this? I email ipower web to see if they did "secondary web hosting". Should be easy if they give static IP addresses per domain. Anyone know if they do?

Pimpen 2010 · 11-09-2003, 07:10 PM

Sorry, can't help you out there.

If you want a host with good uptime, try www.quality-web-hosting.net

**fishfreek** · 11-09-2003, 07:24 PM

webcentive, what you want sounds an awful lot like you want to remotly mirror/cluster/load balance your website so that if either host goes down the other host instatly (or very close to that) gets all the traffic sent its way. While this is possible with two servers that are physicaly close to eachother im not sure how easy it will be to implment on a shared hosting enviorment where the servers are in physical different locations and you dont have full control over the server.

About the onlyway I can think of having the same domain on two servers would be to use subdomains but thats technicly not the same domain.

Pimpen 2010 · 11-09-2003, 07:33 PM

Someoen mentioned to me you can like host images off the IP and that should work

**fishfreek** · 11-10-2003, 07:06 AM

Ya you can host files off it and everything but you cant have the same domain point to two different machines with out some equipmnt inbetween to do loadbalacning or having the machines connected via a VPN in such a way that if one goes down the other gets all the traffic.

Each physical account would have to have its own domain or be a subdomain of the main domain. Like you could do your website on one account at www.mydomain.com and host files at files.mydomain.com where the second domain is a subdomain of your main domain and thats where all your files are stored and linked.

If www. goes down people can still get your files (if they know the path) and if files. goes down then they can still see your website but just not get any of the files.