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High Availability VPS

HostColor

HostColor

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Hi,

This is a question both to users and web hosts. How many of you guys would use/provide HA VPS plans, mirrored from different geographical location?

!!! Please note that I do not mean a CDN!
 
@HostColor - what would you say would be a reasonable price for HA VPS plans, incrementally from what we're accustomed to currently.
 
Good question Steve. I think it depends of the virtualization platform and the of course of the resources. I can answer in percents. It should be 25% - 40% more expensive than a price of 2 different separate virtual servers.
 
We have been using OnApp to provide VPS and the app comes with HA option. We host only on a single DC and doesn't do multiple geographical location mirroring. Unless its a requirement for a client, i think HA within a single DC would be more than sufficient.
 
chennaihomie said:
We have been using OnApp to provide VPS and the app comes with HA option. We host only on a single DC and doesn't do multiple geographical location mirroring. Unless its a requirement for a client, i think HA within a single DC would be more than sufficient.
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I agree that HA within a single DC is sufficient for the majority of folks out there that want HA VPS. 😀
 
Wouldn't this be extremely expensive to setup guys? I'm pretty sure HA within one DC would suffice for most. Offsite backups on the other hand are *money.* Definitely worth the investment.
 
There is no much demand on such support, and it will be easier to loose one of 20 clients who wants it than support him
 
Look - People wants own home locations or locations which is nearest from his home town.
So when this problem came up to us - We made some Survey and find out which location people most want ? Why? Where people buy most of servers - And we already bought those locations servers. And done.. We can provide now almost exactly people wants..
I suggest you guys do this too
 
This can be done, and if you have a need for it you will be making enough money to pay for the demand, if not then you probably don't need an HA solution. If you are connected to a backbone that is redundant and is only 1 or 2 routers away from the globe you should be fine. If you have a true need for HA in multiple geographic locations, I suggest you talk to a specialist in this area.
 
High availability VPS can be done, but the first question is, who is going to be the target audience ? In a world where ppl want to pay less than half of the actual VPS cost, a high availability VPS is going to cost more than double.
 
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