On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:04 AM, bsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > > I am actually working for an African country where the electricity is not as > stable as one could expect - even in the infrastructure of the historical > telco operator… > > With all the care that we have been able to devote to this project, > stability is still very very limited. > So my idea was to create a fully redundant mail server. > > Ideally I would like people not to have to reconfigure anything on their > client and to be able to connect to any resource available online (main > African server or the backup one in Europe) - in a seamless way. > > > Mail protocol has solved the issue of "backup" server (secondary MX)… but > how can I achieve a real redundant server. Knowing that the "main server" > and the "slave" are located 8000 Km away with poor link quality. > > What would be your aproach to solving this problem. > Of course loosing mail is really an issue. >
A simple solution that is getting more and more economical is to simply put your mail servers somewhere that *is* reliable. Renting space in a top notch facility with redundant everything is not very expensive. "virtual" servers are even cheaper if you can get by on that. -Aaron
