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Less downtime, automated snapshot deployments?
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Nate Sanden
I thought you guys were working on something like this, where if a data center goes down, Webdock could deploy a recent snapshot to a different datacenter so the site is only down for a few minutes.
Maybe there is a better solution, but something that makes me sleep better at night would be awesome feature.
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Arni from Webdock
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To clarify what Nate is refering to: At one point we were planning on building automated failover (by basically having hot-spares of all customer VPS servers ready to go, kept continuously updated) which would be useful for single-host downtime events. This is still not ruled out, but we shelved the project after some roadblocks came up and we started doubting how useful it would really be. The scheme as envisioned by us would not protect you from datacenter network-level events.
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Nate Sanden
Arni from Webdock: I still think it would be a really useful feature but I would build it to protect against data-center downtime, not individual host downtime as that seems to be the biggest culprit.
It could be simplified somewhat if you just use the latest snapshot (which as I understand it is already not at the same datacenter as the host).
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Arni from Webdock
Nate Sanden: This is more complex than that, taking networking and IP addresses into consideration. We will keep mulling this over :) We have some ideas on some things, but that's all "next level" stuff which is still a year or two (at least) down the line.
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Epsilon PS _ Paul Schiffer
So essentially you either want something like the Availability Groups in Azure for automated failovering or a manual replication from cold storage?
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Nate Sanden
Epsilon PS _ Paul Schiffer: Not familiar with that first one but it sounds like it. I can currently do this manually, but automated would be very nice.