Re: IPVS hosting on the Internet

[Malcolm <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> That will for sure distribute load. But if one of the DCs (or one of 
> the servers) goes down, doesn't that mean that only every 2nd customer 
> will see our site while every other customer will end up with a timeout?
No, most web clients accept multiple DNS records and try the second if 
the first fails.
This is always worth a read:
http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm

And on an aside I recently talked to a guy from the SalvationArmy who 
said they had been quoted $200,000 for a GSLB type solution from a vendor
and $100,000 for a hosted service from ultradns.com
Although it was for 8 locations rather than 2.

Regards,
Malcolm.