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Old 02-14-2011, 04:57 PM  
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Originally Posted by lauralace View Post
You'd probably be much less happy if you were one of the people who lost thousands of dollars in sales while their sites were offline. I only have 20 sites there and they're small so I probably didn't lose more than a half dozen sales but there are people who have their whole network there and lost a ton more. I feel for them.

I'm just happy I use more than one host so if one does go down my business doesn't grind to a halt.
That's a good idea I actually have suggested this, think of the other as a back up then roll the dns over if needed. You can do this with a cron job and wget in a php script. I wish I can say there is never any downtime but even with redundancy, back up power, raid, whatever there is always at least some risk. Facebook, Microsoft, youtube, FBI, all have suffered downtime.
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