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            <p><a href="http://www.radinks.com/">Rad Inks</a> is having growing pains. Until today we <a href="http://www.radinks.com/">radinks.com</a> was hosted on just a single server. This server has been crashing on an all too often of late.</p>
            <p>The worst outage occured today and yesterday all in all the server was inaccessible for around 14 hours out of the last 48 - mails began to bounce and sales screeched to a halt. It was then that we decided to a do a load balancing act.</p>
            <p>We already had another server with us that wasn't under heavy load but the problem was with the DNS - not having a residential DNS expert we used the DNS servers of <a href="http://www.webquarry.com/">our ISP</a> upto now we switched those across to <a href="https://www.zoneedit.com">zoneedit</a> which offers excellent domain names services for a very reasonable fee.</p>
            <p>You can easily set up a round robin system and what's more zoneedit can detect when one of the servers are failing and temporarily remove that IP from the list. In other words you get a very simple fail over system for a very very reasonable price.</p>
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Growing Pains

2004 Aug 10 at 20:16 » Tagged as :