OK, time to get fancy

[magic]

I want to know how I would go about doing this:

If my KH server is down for whatever reason, my sites redirect seamlessly to a downtime posting page on another provider. Preferably a DNS-level solution of some kind.

Thoughts?

 

[cookie]

I want the same!

 

[khiltd]

If you're not going to mirror the content at both locations then a round-robin solution will not work, as BIND has no concept of "down" and will dole out both IPs all the time. The best you can do is run a polling script that tests for an appropriate response time from the server and then dynamically modifies the zone file via nsupdate, but this would also mean moving your DNS service (and poller) to a third machine somewhere else, and keeping a very low TTL value.

 

[cookie]

too technical did not understand

 

[khiltd]

too technical did not understand

There is no magic button in cPanel that can do any of this for you, so if you're not familiar with BIND and have no desire to learn then you probably shouldn't touch your zone files at all.

 

[cookie]

I have desire to learn where should I start?

 

[khiltd]

http://tinyurl.com/2zmx8n

 

[ppc]

http://tinyurl.com/2zmx8n

Internetbrother,

You can try out that book here

Regards,

 

[magic]

To get back to my original question, I wonder if there are any third-party DNS providers who would do something like that. Like those managed DNS providers (although the ones I have seen are more basic than WHM). Perhaps only corporate providers offer that functionality.

 

[cookie]

I did a research and came accross DNS Failover

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=dns+failover&spell=1

Need more research

 

[ppc]

I did a research and came accross DNS Failover

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=dns+failover&spell=1

Need more research

Something like this?