This is a well understood problem for many of the major web sites on the net. There are many ways to attack this problem, but you are really better hiring someone with experience than trying to figure it out on your own. I can point you to companies that offer products and services to help you do this or if you'd like my consulting help; that is available too.
-Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 11:05 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Geographical redundancy? > > I have to put together a proposal for a medical office management > application which will be used in an ASP (application service provider - > not the MS language:) model.. one of the requirements is that the > application has to be hosted in such a way that a major disaster (natural > or otherwise) in 1 location can't cause the loss of any data, and only a > small (maybe an hour) downtime for the application. > After the Sept. 11 tragedy, my websites had connectivity problems on > and off for a few days. We also had 24 hours of downtime when a hurricane > knocked down a bunch of telephone poles near my ISP a few years ago. > For this application, that wouldn't have been acceptable. > > I have no idea how to approach it. Any ideas? > > > Al > a1webs.com > > > > > At 06:08 PM 5/10/2002 -0400, Justin Greene wrote: > >I Have to agree. Hardware based clustering for the front end... and > either > >SQL Enterprise or Veritas on the backend to handle the database cluster. > >Very solid configuration. We have been hardware clustering CF with > Alteons > >for over 3 years. Just need to keep sessions in the DB and make sure the > >web boxes keep the file systems synched. > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
