Server Configuration

[bluewalrus]

Does anyone know how I could swap servers? For example say I had example.com and example2.com, both different servers. example.com goes down is there a way to make example.com direct to a page on my other server like example2.com/exampletemp.html until example.com is back up? I'm running windows server 2003. Thanks for any ideas you have.

[djr33]

Not at all possible. Think about the process: server 1 has crashed; server 1 can't redirect to server 2-- it's broken.
If one part of server 1 is broken then I suppose you could run some lower level software that does the redirect, but I have no idea how you'd go about that.

It would be a good idea for this to exist as an addition to the setup for DNS in general, but that's probably a bit too much to ask.

I suppose if you run your DNS separately from the rest of it you could work it out from there, but that would get complex too.


The only other idea I can think of is that you have a main server, call it example.com.
That server then checks on the other servers, like example1.com and example2.com.
Then whichever is up will get redirected. But that won't solve direct links to those servers, just the new visitors entering the site from the main server.