| Posted by fsusa, 07-07-2004, 12:51 AM | | Hi There,
I have co-lo'd win servers for web serving, but am using third party Linux reseller account for email. Which was great until the machine got hacked and my clients were down for 9 hrs and lost most of those 9 hrs of emails (despite me having a DNS based mailbackup).
What is everyone doing to handle this kind of stuff? I'm looking into maybe slaving two linux machines to get redundancy, but want to stick with shared hosting plans as I don't want to get itno being an email hosting person.
Any thoughts/ideas/input?
Best Wishes,
Peter
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| Posted by zinet, 07-07-2004, 07:00 PM | | You can put 2 MX entries into the DNS records so if one server is down the other will take over.
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| Posted by fsusa, 07-07-2004, 10:05 PM | | Right, but the question is how do you access the emails that were sent to the first server if its hard drive goes down, and how do you allow people to quickly access server 2 using their email software without having to change their settings?
Best Wishes,
Peter
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| Posted by hostingasia, 07-24-2004, 11:53 PM | | 1. Email server software must support load-balancing
2. Use NAS or DAS as a common storage
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| Posted by Shaw Networks, 07-25-2004, 01:09 AM | | You coud do something as simple as creating cloned accounts on another server that are automatically forwarded any e-mail from the corresponding account. Get a backup DNS setup and you should never lose any e-mails.
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| Posted by fsusa, 07-25-2004, 11:56 AM | | I thought something like that would be the solution and that is exactly what I want to do.
However I'm a Microsoft rather than a Linux person and I don't like any of the Microsoft POP solutions (either the ones built into Win2000 and Win2003 or MailMax which I have a copy of). Could you recommend anyone who could set up the above inexpensively on a pair or Linux servers, and ideally on either shared or virtual private servers so I don't have to worry about kernel patches and all the other stuff required to keep the linux boxes clean and safe?
My problem isn't the high level conceptual, it's finding someone who can and will perform the work!
Best Wishes,
Peter
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| Posted by hostingvince, 07-25-2004, 04:14 PM | | I'm sure any of the good VPS providers will help you setup what you want.
Servint, Dinix, Vpscolo, etc...
Vince
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