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    • humptydumpty
      humptydumpty last edited by humptydumpty

      I just attended DNSMadeEasy's webinar about how to set up DNS failover and it got me wondering how I'm supposed to auto-replicate my server on a backup server that's on a complete different provider. Suggestions?

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      • d19dotca
        d19dotca @humptydumpty last edited by

        @humptydumpty This might be where Cloudron's multi-server functionality may help, though that remains to be seen. Until such functionality is built into Cloudron directly, the main way to achieve this is to do an rsync between servers where possible for all the Cloudron data, or setup some sort of image portability function between providers (sometimes you can export or import your own VM images for example, but not too many providers do that).

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        Dustin Dauncey
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        • humptydumpty
          humptydumpty @d19dotca last edited by

          @d19dotca I guess I'll have to wait and see if Cloudron's multi-server functionality would work for this use-case. Thanks Dustin.

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          • fbartels
            fbartels App Dev @d19dotca last edited by

            @d19dotca said in Server Replication for DNS Failover purposes?:

            This might be where Cloudron's multi-server functionality may help

            Whenever I read about it, it was more about distributing the load over multiple servers, and not about higher availability/failover (although for at least the user management it may be required).

            HA strategies can also be quite different depending on the application itself, so I doubt that there is a "one size fits all" solution to this.

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            • humptydumpty
              humptydumpty @fbartels last edited by

              @fbartels I haven't had a single downtime that would justify setting up DNS failover but thought it might be good to have if it's doable. I think having multiple backups and a good disaster recovery plan is more beneficial for my use-case. But if it makes any difference, the app that I was interested in protecting is my WP/Woocommerce store.

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              • d19dotca
                d19dotca @fbartels last edited by

                @fbartels I concur with your conclusion - that was my understanding too. I just assume in the further future that it may evolve to be more of a HA feature too since that was what users also had been clamouring for.

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                • girish
                  girish Staff last edited by

                  This doesn't answer the question but the multi-server feature is intended to distribute the apps over multiple servers/nodes. The design is not for providing HA functionality.

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