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pkgal79
03-29-2004, 04:28 AM
I have 2 sites siteA and siteB as replica of each other. i want siteB to be displayed if any time siteA is not available or vice versa. any help?

buntine
03-29-2004, 04:46 AM
What do you mean by 'not available'? Do you mean; the server is down? Or are you referring to when you are making updates?

Regards.

pkgal79
03-29-2004, 04:58 AM
sorry for not being clear. i definitely mean that if server is down, but i want 100 % availaibility for my users, then how should i automatically redirect users from siteA to siteB.

buntine
03-29-2004, 05:32 AM
Not possible.. If your server is down then the client browser cannot communicate with it.

The browser will simply display the 'Page cannot be displayed' error message.

Your server should be up over 99.5% of the time.. It will be extraordinarily rare occurance that someone will not be able to access your site, provided you are hosting a stable server.

Finally, there may be some indirect method in which you can have the page redirected if your server is completely down -- but i am yet to hear of such a method.

Regards,
Andrew Buntine.