Posted this in staff before, thought I'd announce here as well:
I've moved the domain to Cloudflare because I have been working on a dual server setup with an automatic fail-over, there are also some other nice features through Cloudflare. It's a dual server setup with a main and a backup server. So if the main webserver goes down it automatically switches to the backup webserver within a minute, I've done some work on some customs scripts the past few nights and it works great now that I've tested it some more.
What happens is that the backup server queries the main server once a minute and if it gets a timeout or a 503 error for example it switches the DNS to the backup server through a script I've made that uses the Cloudflare API, I also get an e-mail notifying me of the issue. Once the main server is healthy again it automatically switches back in the same way.
Not that we have a lot of downtime these days anyway but nice to have Unless the database crashes (extremely rare) it should mean practically zero downtime.
The servers are identical hardware-wise and on the same network.
Specs are for those who are interested Intel Core i7, 32 GB RAM, 2x2 TB SATA in RAID and with a 1 Gbit/s connection each.
Backups are also automatically synced between the servers of course, daily.
I've moved the domain to Cloudflare because I have been working on a dual server setup with an automatic fail-over, there are also some other nice features through Cloudflare. It's a dual server setup with a main and a backup server. So if the main webserver goes down it automatically switches to the backup webserver within a minute, I've done some work on some customs scripts the past few nights and it works great now that I've tested it some more.
What happens is that the backup server queries the main server once a minute and if it gets a timeout or a 503 error for example it switches the DNS to the backup server through a script I've made that uses the Cloudflare API, I also get an e-mail notifying me of the issue. Once the main server is healthy again it automatically switches back in the same way.Not that we have a lot of downtime these days anyway but nice to have
Unless the database crashes (extremely rare) it should mean practically zero downtime.The servers are identical hardware-wise and on the same network.
Specs are for those who are interested Intel Core i7, 32 GB RAM, 2x2 TB SATA in RAID and with a 1 Gbit/s connection each.
Backups are also automatically synced between the servers of course, daily.
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