I have a solution to that problem... of course they start at around $45K! ;) Don't feel bad, people spend many thousands of dollars on load balancing and fault tolerance. Some get teh same result as you even after all that. Ask me how much my company spends/has spent to keep systems available at 99.999%+! Dale -- "Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly." - Arnold Edinborough On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, James Newton. Admin 3 wrote: > source= http://www.piclist.com/postbot.asp?id=piclist\2002\04\29\133111a > > And just when I though it was ok, the server apparently got in a loop (CPU > usage at 100%, very sluggish, can't get the pages out, lockup.) and I had to > restart it. This time I told it to do an exhaustive disk check and it found > some corruption and repaired it. Seems like the system is ok now... have to > wait and see. > > The real killer is that the backup server is fine, and could have handled > the load while the primary server was down, but nobody can get to it because > my DNS still can't switch from one to the other when it detects a failure... > I've been working on that for years now and it has totally kicked my butt. > > --- > James Newton: PICList.com webmaster, former Admin #3 > mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone > http://www.piclist.com/member/JMN-EFP-786 > PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.