Hi All,

We currently have a dedicated server which is running linux and due to the nature of the online business that runs on it we need some sort of solution incase of hardware failure so there is no downtime. After some reading it looks as though another box running some sort of High Availability software would be the ideal solution. Can someone shed some light on what they suggest would be the best option. We would be looking to pay someone to set this up for us as well so let me know if you are capable of this as well. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks

You might want to talk with sales about this. They should be able to provide you with some solutions..one of which would most likely be adding an extra server or 2, then setup some form of clustering between them.

Thanks for the reply but the box is not actually with The Planet... I was just wanting peoples opinion on what I should do and the direction I should take.

That is a bit open ended of a question. There are a lot of ways to do HA and most of it depends on your budget and what you need. There is the super high end that even theplanet cannot provide and then there is a more reasonable level using redundant internet/power/load balancer. In general you will end up using some sort of a load balancer with multiple web and database servers so that if one goes offline you are still online to end users.