[38531] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Hosting Failover Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James DeMong)
Wed Jun 6 17:49:54 2001
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From: James DeMong <James.DeMong@telus.com>
To: "Nanog@Merit. Edu (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:49:03 -0600
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I am interested what I should design to.
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From: Paul Froutan [mailto:pfroutan@rackspace.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:23 PM
To: Nanog@Merit. Edu (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Hosting Failover Question
What do you mean by "reasonable"? Do you mean what you can expect right
now at a hoster, or what you should aim for when designing a system?
At 6/6/01, James DeMong wrote:
>I am looking for a Rule of Thumb on failover for hosting, mostly
>tcp(webserver), some udp (audio/video streaming) stuff.
>My thought is that 5 seconds to failover when a network
>element(switch/router/load balancer/FW) fails is reasonable.
>
>How many seconds is reasonable for fail over in such a situation?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>__
>James DeMong
>Network Design Specialist
>TELUS Advanced Communications
>Phone: (403) 503-3718
>Email: James.DeMong@telus.com
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Paul Froutan Email: pfroutan@rackspace.com
Rackspace Managed Hosting <http://www.rackspace.com>
