Solution for preventing long periods of downtime?
I have a site that's hosted on shared hosting but on a powerful NVMe SSD and LiteSpeed powered server with very lenient limits for my account (4 core CPU, 4GB RAM, etc.) - I have no complaints about it whatsoever, it's very fast, consistent, and the server stays online for 150-200 or even more days at a stretch easily (been on it since last 2 years).
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However, when something does happen to it, such as a switch failure, it can take anywhere from a few minutes to as long as a few hours for it to get back up online. Due to the nature of the site, being offline for even 1-2 hours causes significant loss (easily more than the cost of the hosting itself).
Last night, it went offline due to a switch failure and remained offline for nearly 4 hours. As soon as I got the downtime notification email, I looked into it and realized that it probably wasn't coming back online anytime soon, and went on to restore a recent backup (always keep your own backups!) on a new hosting account with another provider. As it was using CloudFlare, I just had to change the origin server IP in CloudFlare and the site quickly came back online. This way, the site was down for just over an hour instead of the close-to-4-hours that it would otherwise be down for if I hadn't done anything.
My question is, is there a solution these days that can help me avoid issues like this altogether, so that the site never stays down for more than a few minutes at most?
However, when something does happen to it, such as a switch failure, it can take anywhere from a few minutes to as long as a few hours for it to get back up online.
How many times such failures happen? I find it unusual that a good hosting would have such frequent issues.
As it was using CloudFlare, I just had to change the origin server IP in CloudFlare and the site quickly came back online. This way, the site was down for just over an hour instead of the close-to-4-hours that it would otherwise be down for if I hadn't done anything.
My question is, is there a solution these days that can help me avoid issues like this altogether, so that the site never stays down for more than a few minutes at most?
Look within your Cloudflare account and set up load balancer.
How many times such failures happen? I find it unusual that a good hosting would have such frequent issues.
Maybe once a year. It's very uncommon, but every bit of downtime hurts regardless of how infrequent it is.
Quote Originally Posted by MechanicWeb-shoss View Post
Look within your Cloudflare account and set up load balancer.
How will it help exactly, can you explain?
Maybe once a year.
Once a year is not acceptable. Good DCs have good switches or other equipment. Disasters happen but still they do not happen as frequently as once a year.
How will it help exactly, can you explain?
You will have two hosting accounts. If one fails, all traffic will be routed to the live hosting account.
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Once a year is not acceptable. Good DCs have good switches or other equipment. Disasters happen but still they do not happen as frequently as once a year.
It's actually the first time in around 2.5 years that specifically a switch failure has happened. What I wanted to say is that lengthy downtimes (lasting over 20-30 minutes) happen around once a year for whatever reason. Which many would argue is acceptable (way better than the standard 99.9% 'promised' uptime, to be honest).
Quote Originally Posted by MechanicWeb-shoss View Post
You will have two hosting accounts. If one fails, all traffic will be routed to the live hosting account.
Will I need to sign up with another host or CloudFlare will act as the 2nd host? If it's the former, how will the 2 servers stay in sync with the MySQL DB and files?
What I wanted to say is that lengthy downtimes (lasting over 20-30 minutes) happen around once a year for whatever reason. Which many would argue is acceptable (way better than the standard 99.9% 'promised' uptime, to be honest).
You are correct on that many will not accept a downtime of 25-30 minutes once a year. And it is not that tough to maintain 99.9+% uptime on a decent dedicated server. In fact a good number of providers do have 99.9+% uptime.
Will I need to sign up with another host or CloudFlare will act as the 2nd host? If it's the former, how will the 2 servers stay in sync with the MySQL DB and files?
You will need another hosting account. Cloudflare will only switch the traffic. You will also need to synchronize the databases and files between the two hosting accounts, or find another way to maintain two 'live' hosting accounts.
I suggested this as it is the cheapest solution available. Websites needing a load balanced setup usually have their own set ups, involving multiple servers which cost significantly more.
