I had a situation this week where a VPS had to go down for a few hours for a much needed resource upgrade. The Hardware it was running on aparently didnt have the spare resources to allocate so the whole virtual machine (I assume thats what its called) had to be moved to new hardware.
That meant I had to spend a day backing up the critical accounts and setting them up on a new VPS temporarily, and changing the DNS for the domains to point to the new VPS. All in all a real pain.
Is there a way to have a permanent redundancy built in using DNS settings or some other method, so that if a VPS goes down and the main IP address known by the nameservers is unreachable, then the nameservers will try a second IP address that I would have set up to host a very recent backup of the first VPS?
Thanks
That meant I had to spend a day backing up the critical accounts and setting them up on a new VPS temporarily, and changing the DNS for the domains to point to the new VPS. All in all a real pain.
Is there a way to have a permanent redundancy built in using DNS settings or some other method, so that if a VPS goes down and the main IP address known by the nameservers is unreachable, then the nameservers will try a second IP address that I would have set up to host a very recent backup of the first VPS?
Thanks