We have found it effective at least for things like DNS and MX-backup to simply swap some VPS and/or physical colo with another ISP outside our geographic area. Both protocols are designed for that kind of redundancy. Definitely has limitations, but is also probably the cheapest solution.
- Mike On Feb 26, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > > > Does anyone have any recommendation for a reliable cloud host? > > We require 1 or 2 very small virtual hosts to host some remote services to > serve as backup to our main datacenter. One of these services is a DNS > server, so it is important that it is up all the time. > > We have been using Rackspace Cloud Servers. We just realized that they have > absolutely no redundancy or failover after experiencing a outage that lasted > more than 6 hours yesterday. I am appalled that they would offer something > called "cloud" without having any failover at all. > > Basic requirements: > > 1. Full redundancy with instant failover to other hypervisor hosts upon > hardware failure (I thought this was a given!) > 2. Actual support (with a phone number I can call) > 3. reasonable pricing (No, $800/month is not reasonable when I need a tiny > 256MB RAM Server with <1GB/mo of data transfers) > > thanks, > -Randy >
