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I am interested what I should design to. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Froutan [mailto:pfroutan@rackspace.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:23 PM To: Nanog@Merit. Edu (E-mail) Subject: Re: Hosting Failover Question What do you mean by "reasonable"? Do you mean what you can expect right now at a hoster, or what you should aim for when designing a system? At 6/6/01, James DeMong wrote: >I am looking for a Rule of Thumb on failover for hosting, mostly >tcp(webserver), some udp (audio/video streaming) stuff. >My thought is that 5 seconds to failover when a network >element(switch/router/load balancer/FW) fails is reasonable. > >How many seconds is reasonable for fail over in such a situation? > >Thanks in advance. >__ >James DeMong >Network Design Specialist >TELUS Advanced Communications >Phone: (403) 503-3718 >Email: James.DeMong@telus.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Froutan Email: pfroutan@rackspace.com Rackspace Managed Hosting <http://www.rackspace.com>
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