Redundant Credit Card Processing Solution?

RokaMoka asks: "As I type this, I'm on hold with Verisign Payment Services, our (only) merchant services provider. I run several e-commerce sites, and how shall I say... 'tis the season. At the moment, VPS is totally down, and I am losing thousands of dollars per hour. Does anyone have any experience in designing and supporting e-commerce solutions with multiple vendors for CC processing? What other networks are out there, and what has been the customer experience with them? What should the strategy be, load-balance or fail-over?"

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you were losing thousands of dollars per hour, would you really be "asking Slashdot"?

Re:Queue the Transactions

[Anonymous Coward]

Ship? Don't you mean, "I would not let them look at any pictures until I successfully authorized and charged the CC."?