Mirroring Live Server...
Sep 4, 2006
I'm a web designer - not an IT guy, as such I'm not 100% on setting up servers/dev environments etc...
I'm freelance and currently working in-house for a client that has set up a dev server that supposedly mirrors their live site - its a catalogue site with loads of dynamic elements.
The dev site they've set up displays only the html, no images or stylesheets link up when i preview them in dreamweaver as they don't logically link to the page as the pages are templates drawn from various folders.
What I want to know is is it possible to mirror a dev server exactly like the live website so the scripts etc all work as they do on the live site. I'm pretty sure it is as I've worked on dev servers before but not one like this bloody mess. The IT bods here seem to think the dev server is the best that is achievable - are they right? am I missing something???
I can't really answer any technical questions apart from i think the dev server is an apache server - what do i need to explain to the IT bods to get my point across?
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Mar 22, 2008
I would like to create an exact copy of my live drive on a daily basis via cron. Is there a good mechanism for doing this *without* taking the main drive offline? It seems like the two common backup solutions: dd and rsync both have issues in this area. I don’t think Rsync can create an exact mirror (including partitions) and dd looks like you need to unmount the drive(s) first.
Both drives are of identical size and installed via the ide controller.
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Mar 30, 2009
I need to host livezilla (live chat software) . It needs php and mysql. Which host provider would you recommend? Its not running from my own server. I don't know why, but giving so many errors! I have seen people are using it ..
so, where do i host livezilla?
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Mar 22, 2007
We are considering buying rackspace at a datacenter, and setting up two servers. The first would be the primary, lets call it Stewie. The second is called Peter.
Is it possible to setup some sort of either software or hardware solution that automatically mirrors all data from Stewie to Peter automatically?
Basically we want a redundant setup, where if either one of the server fails, the other can take over without any interruption and loss of data.
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Apr 9, 2008
I was wondering how I can mirror another server, I have a client website and they want redundant DNS so if one of their servers goes offline, the other will keep it up. Any ideas how I can set this up? Is it difficult to do?
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Jan 30, 2007
First of all appologies if this is posted in the wrong forum, was unsure of where to ask the following questions.
We have a web server running a web application accessed by a large number of users during a working day. On an evening the web server is set to back up the database to another web server at a different location.
The server is running SQL 2000 ( although we are just upgrading to SQL 2005)
My question is how easy would it be to setup our server so it "mirrors" to our back up server. What I mean by this is that at periods during a working day the database is transfered to our back up server at periodic intervals, say every 15 mins, so that in event we suffer a problem with our main server could re direct our users to our back up server, with little or no data loss?
If this is possible does it also put extra strain on our server that is being accessed, i.e. would users notice a slow down of server as data is moved about?
If all the above is possible, is there any easy way of pointing our domain name at the back up server within say 15mins or so of main server failure? if our main server went down we could not redirect users form main server to back up, so is there any method of making this happen in event of failure of main server?
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May 21, 2008
Well I am looking to learn to manage a server (so I won't need to hire others to do what I can do). However I have some basic questions.
1) So lets say you have a server with two identical HDD's and raid 1?? or a SATA controller so that the second HDD is just a mirror of the first HDD when/if the first HDD dies does the SATA controller or RAID card see that the first HDD died and switch to the second HDD so the site that is hosted on the server stays online?? I am thinking yes as that would seem to be the point of having a raid or sata controller and setup ??
Part twoto the question is is their software that you need to install that will make the server email you when/if a HDD dies (so you can do pull the dead one out and replace it with a new one). Or is it just that you would watch some type of server log(s) to stay ontop of if the server is running all good??
Second is how common (these days) is it for a server that would be new and brand name have a HDD die or have some other hardware failure?
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Jan 29, 2009
A great insight to alot of my research and thank you in advance for any advice given.
I have a server based in HK(with WHMCS) and host several websites. The speed and availability serves the Asia Pacific market/viewers well; but we have several new websites that also targets the European and North American viewers.
I have been researching on getting a dedicated server based in US to mirror our server. Therefore allowing the US/European market to access the website faster. Although we have a few problems (and very little budget to solve it too ;p)
1. We need to sync the two servers in real time ; rsync seems to be the best but is there any other reccomendations?
2. We will make the IP address in each servers the same, so our clients need not change their dns. Do we need IPcast/anycast?
3. Is there anything else that I may have oversight?
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Jun 16, 2008
I have been working on an online shop locally from my machine, using Visual Web Developer and SQL server.
This is working fine, but now its at the stage were i need to show a client. In order to do this i need to upload it to our servers.
What i cant get my head round is the connection to the sql server, do i need to upload this too, or can i somehow point the connection string to the sql server sitting on my local machine...
Is it easier just to upload an sql server? how would i go about this?
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Oct 17, 2006
This is my first post and had a question about dns and mirroring.
Here is the scenerio :
I have my main website on server1 and it is a whm cpanel server. The website is dynamic and database oriented website.
I have another server - server2 with whm installed on it and I wish to configure both the servers such a way that the data is synchronised on both the servers in particular intervals.
Also I would like to configure dns redundancy in such a way that if one server goes offline for some reason, the website should be immediately resolving from the other server.
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Jun 22, 2009
I currently have a dedicated server with a single hard drive in it with about 800 cPanel accounts. I am purchasing a new server with identical specs but will have 2 hard drives in RAID1 from the same data center.
Is it possible to make an exact image of the first server to avoid any configuration loss on the new server? I have already spoke to the data center about moving the current IPs to the new server and I know moving the cPanel accounts can be done in WHM but I would like to preserve all of the server settings, configurations, and background scripts that I have running.
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Oct 29, 2007
My company requires a Mirrored Server setup. I hope someone can direct me to the right solution which guarantees the least downtime.
- We have 20+ php/mysql websites.
- We need two dedicated servers hosted in 2 different datacentres.
- Users are directed to the first server.
- If the first server is down the users are automatically directed to the 2nd server @ the 2nd datacentre.
- The software/hardware which redirects the users need to be fail proof or have an instant backup which takes over incase that goes down too.
- Data (databases and files) needs to be synced correctly to avoid data not being mirrored correctly.
I've done some reading and there is alot of mention of the DNS round and load balancers.
However, it seems these two options are also not fail proof.
Would appreciate if someone could simply outlining what system would be best for us for 100% uptime incase of server failure.
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Nov 4, 2009
If anyone can help me in doing this, I'd appreciate it. I searched to see if anyone had already done this, but I didn't find anything so my apologies if this has been answered before.
Here's what I have: 1 dedicated server with a static ip of course and currently, I run all my sites off of this machine as well as my few clients. The server is running CentOS and Apache.
What I want to do is build a new server at my house/office and create a secondary webserver that mirrors my current setup. I've heard about using Rsync to do this, but I want to know if it'll allow for the balancing effect I'm looking for.
Rather than use this 2nd server as a backup only, I want also use it for dns resolution. Right now, all my sites are using two nameservers (NS1.2D.NET and NS2.2D.NET), but they both point to the same IP address at the same location. I want NS2.2D.NET to point to this 2nd server for redundancy (in case the other location goes down) and also for balancing (to spread traffic over two servers instead of just one).
Eventually what I'm going to do is move all my clients and websites to one location again, but my own location so I can save the expenses of dedicated hosting off-site. However, I want to use this setup as a test to see if my own location will be able to handle the traffic and such.
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Jul 7, 2009
I have a LAMP server running and would like to have the exact mirror running on another location. I would like to sync the web files and database in either real time (upon any update) or in delayed mode (x minutes after the update).
For MySQL, I believe replication can do the job unless anybody has better recommendation. What would you guys suggest for web files? Can I use different Linux flavor but maintain back the same LAMP version?
Is there any "online" 3rd party load balancing service that I could use to load balance the traffic to both servers?
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Aug 31, 2008
I have a VPS server running on Windows 2003, and would like to stream live videos to about 50-80 people. I was wondering is there a way to have a FLASH based stream embed into my website, without paying for a software like Flash Media Server?
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May 27, 2008
I plan to run the live support script for my website. Since these kind of script cause alot of traffic on the site, i am looking for a second server to host it. I think a VPS would be good for it. Anyone here has experience about this or has any reommend for a good VPS server?
I am running a PHPlivesupport.com sript for live support
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Jan 8, 2007
We damaged a file on a windows server 2003 system which caused us to get a grey screen where the login windows should be (it was setup as a domain controller)
We tried booting it in safe mode and all the other modes etc etc.... but to no avail... we couldn't get it to work.
So we wanted to replace the file manually using another pc (by inserting one of the harddrives into the pc, and copying the file to it).
We used a windows XP machine.... imported the harddrive using disk management..... we had to un mirror the drive to be able to access it.
Once the mirror was broken i gave it a drive letter, copied the the new file to it, and, removed the drive letter i assigned it, and tried booting with *just* that drive in the windows 2003 server.
Now it wont boot, it just reboots everytime i tries to start up, probably because we broke the mirror on a different machine.
It still boots from the other untouched drive... that was in the mirror, but we have no way to edit the files on there.
So is there any way to actually get this, once mirrored drive, to boot now its a single disc?
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Dec 23, 2008
Is it possible to turn a non raided setup into Linux software raid, while it is live, and if it's the OS drive? Can you even software raid the OS drive remotely? I've been thinking about doing it for the redundancy (and possible slight performance boost for reads, but doing it more for redundancy). I'm using CentOS.
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Apr 29, 2007
I have a VPS-A with company A, within, I have 30 accounts.
Now, I wish to split them with min-impact, ie VPS-A with company A and VPS-B with company B (looking for 1 if you can suggest 1 good VPS company) where VPS-B will host also all the accounts in VPS-A.
Then, I wish to be able to have VPS- B mirror to VPS-A and so, if VPS-A is down, my 100 clients in VPS-A will not be affected and automatically swing to VPS-B.
What is my investment and what should I do to acheive that?
Alternatively, I hope, dreamfully, that VPS-A and VPS-B will be both active and VPS-A are VPS-B mirror and vice-versa.
In VPS-A, I have client 1 - 50 active and client 51- 100 mirror from VPS-B and in VPS-B, I have client 51 - 100 active and client 1 - 50 mirror from VPS-A.
In anything, I can balance the load from both VPSs and if one of the VPS is down, I can swing to the other and still with min-impact.
Then, when my faulty VPS is up, how can I swing back the 50 client to the original VPS?
I hope that my client do not need to change their dns if there is a downtime and also, auto update both VPS if there is an content or email uipdate from my client.
In Short,
1. I'm looking for another good VPS
2. How do I achieve mirroring with auto update to 2nd VPS without having my client changing their DNS when my VPS is down.
3. How do I achieve mirroring and load-balancing between 2 VPS without having my ciient changing their DNS when one of it is down and how to restore back when VPS is up again.
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Jun 20, 2007
I run a small company and we have a web based application accessed by our customers, this application lets our customers run their business, tracking working, producing parts orders, job cards, invoicing etc.
The database we use is SQL 2005, what we are trying to achieve is have another server, either alongside the existing one, or if it would work at another location where the data from one server is written to the other server, so in the event one server went down we could quickly switch to the second server, my questions -
1, Is this possible?
2, If it is what impact does it have on the performance of server one?
3, Do both servers have to be in the same location?
4, How easy is it to configure assuming its possible.
5, Is there anything else I should be aware of?
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Dec 7, 2006
my setup to start:
I've got two servers is two different locations.
one of them, the master server ( we'll call server A ), runs a large web site with a lot of content and a mysql server.
I've setup another server ( we'll call server B ), that is completely in sync with server A, both mysql and all data using mysql replication and rsync for data.
also I've setup round robin dns, which is also working correctly.
Now, my question is:
if server A goes down, and server B picks up after it.
how can i get those changes that were made on server B back in sync with server A when it comes back up. example, a use uploads files, or posts/edits/deletes data from mysql.
how should i handle this?
any ideas would be great, I'm sort on stuck on this one for the moment.
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Nov 21, 2007
We have a webportal that has a lot of data... and we have different versions of this portal in different languages (russian, italian, chinese).
Now for better performance in china we took a web hosting there and made a copy of the portal there...
It is working as expected but it is really hard to mantain different versions of portals on different servers with separated databases and all other important scripts...
Now we are making a rewrite of our system and this rewrite will use a central database and unified data (so a user of the local (eg chinese) portal will be a user of the global portal too!
Now the portal is based on cakePHP and mySQL... so the business logic scripts and the database are only one for all the portal versions. The only thing that changes for each portal are the config files (one per portal).
Now, making it work on one server is easy but we would like to make mirror servers in russia, china and italy. Lets call them B, C and D and the main server: A.
Obviously all the servers should be in synchronisation between themselves. I've read mySQL has a replication function that would deal with the DB synch. What about other files? The portal allows users to upload their photos, avatars, attach documents and video content. We would like this files to be synchronised too...
B<=>A
C<=>A
D<=>A
and not B<=>C
or B<=>D
How do we achive this?
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Are RAID 1 & HDD mirroring synonyms?
Which is better RAID 1 & HDD mirroring?
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Jan 6, 2007
Does anybody know how I can mirror a websute using PHP?
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If i want to have a video streaming whats the best way?
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i have a server running RH 7.3 Plesk 8.1 and want to upgrade to new version, probably centos, are there any issues i should know about in regards to Plesk?
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Even better can any one recommend someone to perform this for me?
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Jul 26, 2008
have only done static html sites in the past, but am ready to branch out and learn php and mysql. I have watched numerous video tutorials on php,mysql, dreamweaver cs3, and how they all work together.
I have followed all the steps on the tutorials and the website works great on my local testing server, but how in the world do I get it to work live on the internet! This is probably a very stupid question but I am at the point of not caring about looking stupid. I just want to know what Im missing/ doing wrong. The website is hosted with GoDaddy, (and the domain is registered with them as well).Am I supposed to have something set up there or a different server? I have tried using ftp to transfer all files over to the domain but when I visit the domain, the php pages do not work.
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Jan 29, 2008
What do you all think of 'Live Support'?
Personally, I use it. I like the friendly touch of talking to someone whom responds to my questions directly.
Do you think Live Support is good for;
1. Nothing
2. Sales
3. Tech Support
4. Emergency, etc.
In my experience, Live Support has often been used for technical assistance, and while this is great if you are a one man shop, it doesnt work very well with shift tech support.
Sales is a bit more direct, but - I would personally still prefer a 'record' of the conversation that the client could point to.
Live support may have a valid use during emergency situations, however I am doubting that the personalities that actually answer these live chats can provide any authoritative answers other than 'It'll be ok'.
So, does live chat have a future in Web Hosting, in your opinion?
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I have 250-500 dollar budget to beging hosting a social network website with live broadcasting and video streaming capabilities-let's say that it will be something similar to www.livevideo.com. I need a hosting company in USA--Texas is a good place. Let's say that the first month is going to have 200 users a day, and videos are going to be high resolution.
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