Website uptime strategies?

I need to develop a variety of websites that will be very high bandwidth and I'm looking for a good hosting solution. (5-10TB/mo). Uptime is extremely important - I've used Media Temple in the past, and though uptime was good, it wasn't 100%. Should I look into multiple hosts, if so how does the DNS work if one host is down?

2008-10-21T14:43:18Z

BTW, is there any reason to use one hosting registrar over another. I've been using GoDaddy for most of my new registrations, but have also used Network Solutions.

2008-10-21T16:10:20Z

Dedicated sounds good. My primary concern is uptime - so if my dedicated box has an internet outage/crash/etc - I'd like to ensure that the traffic is routed to a backup server automagically. My guess is this is done somehow with my registrar/dns host but I'm not sure.

whizzicklein2008-10-21T17:12:58Z

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If you're ready for the bigtime, you should consider a reputable, solid hosting provider, such as Rackspace (rackspace.com). The offer a 100% uptime guarantee. My company has used them for years and they have a proven track record.

DNS is not responsible for routing your traffic to another server in the event of an outage. What you're looking for is the redundancy ahieved as a side effect of LOAD-BALANCING. A load balancer is a device that routes incoming traffic to a number of servers in a Web farm. You point DNS to the IP of the load-balancer (with the assistance of your hosting provider, this is a no-brainer). Then, your domain resolves to the load-balancer, goes there, and the device routes them to an available server.

The domain registrar is irrelevant too. It doesn't matter who you used to register the domain, but I would recommend transferring it to the same professional hosting provider that you choose. Then, configure DNS with the nameservers for that hosting provider. But, again, this is optional.

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Coddy2008-10-21T22:01:00Z

I'd get your own server. I built one for $70 Had a 1.3 Ghz pro. 512Mb of ram. And a 100 Gb hard drive. with daul ethernet ports. ran linux sever and tada. The only thing I had to pay for was for the internet. It could serve up to 243 people t a time. add a few more and Bam.

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Cazpa2008-10-21T21:50:08Z

Godaddy is good but you should be thinking about getting a dedicated server rather than shared, you will need to shop around.


Good Luck

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