I found the solution [medal]
Big companies have A-RECORDS to many IP addresses, for domainname.com and www.domainname.com.
The different IP correspond to webservers that serve the same contents.
At the same time they use load balancer and failover systems to check on the status of all the...
What do major companies do?
Is it OK for you to mention one of those expensive solutions?
Knowing what I am looking for might help me find a free or cheaper solution.
Thanks
Yes, I also thought about creating two A-RECORDs,
google.com has two A-RECORDS pointing at different IPs.
But the problems is, as you (Morsing) say, that 50% percent of the requests will fail if one of the web servers is down.
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I still cannot believe it cannot be done with DNS.
All...
I have two web servers hosting 2 copies of my site:
One copy with host1.com at IP 255.190.190.190 (bad example)
Another one with host2.com at IP 255.200.100.120 (another bad example)
I would like to setup the DNS so that if one of the web servers goes down, the users will be able to access the...
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