Quickly Switching Your Servers to Backups? 73
moogoogaipan writes "After a few days thinking about the quickest way to bring my website back to the internet users, I am still stuck at DNS. From experience, even if I set the TTL for my DNS zone file as low as 5 minutes, there are still DNS servers out there won't update until a few days later (Yeah. I'm looking at you, AOL). Here is my situation. Say that I have my web servers and database servers at a remote backup location, ready to serve. If we get hit by an earthquake at our main location, what can I do in a few hours to get everyone to go to our backup location?"
Um (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Server Clusters (Score:5, Funny)
Depending on the industry, that's a very real problem.
Sysadmin: "Don't worry, we're already switched over to the hot spare, just get out of there!"
CIO: "What if the whole building goes?"
Sysadmin: "No worries. Remember that $1M we spent stringing all that fiber over to the other datacenter?"
CIO: "Oh yeah, the one in WTC 2!"
Sysadmin: "Aaw, shit."
Re:Um (Score:2, Funny)
Oops (Score:3, Funny)