RE: Hosting Failover Question

[James DeMong <James.DeMong () telus com>]

I am interested what I should design to.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Froutan [mailto:pfroutan () rackspace com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:23 PM
To: Nanog@Merit. Edu (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Hosting Failover Question



What do you mean by "reasonable"?  Do you mean what you can expect right 
now at a hoster, or what you should aim for when designing a system?

At 6/6/01, James DeMong wrote:


> I am looking for a Rule of Thumb on failover for hosting, mostly
> tcp(webserver), some udp (audio/video streaming) stuff.
> My thought is that 5 seconds to failover when a network
> element(switch/router/load balancer/FW) fails is reasonable.
>
> How many seconds is reasonable for fail over in such a situation?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> __
> James DeMong
> Network Design Specialist
> TELUS Advanced Communications
> Phone: (403) 503-3718
> Email: James.DeMong () telus com

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