mirrioing of sites

mtajim · #1 (**permalink**) 18-03-2007, 10:04 AM

How do u mirror a site when you have hostd it in two diffrent locations. and do u have to upload the updates in diffrent servers or single upload does all, i really have some confusion of these things

monaghan · #2 (**permalink**) 19-03-2007, 12:03 AM

What are you using for the mirror? If it's 2 seperate servers, then the other will have no knowledge of the other unless you have specifically coded a mirrored solution so will have no idea that the content needs to be replicated.

mtajim · #3 (**permalink**) 19-03-2007, 10:22 AM

Thats what i am too asking , whats the code for mirrioring

monaghan · #4 (**permalink**) 19-03-2007, 11:04 AM

upload it twice and set round-robin DNS would be a simple mirror for a static site, without knowing what your requirements are though it's difficult to know what to suggest. Database driven sites are more complex as you'd need to establish a 2 way replication of data.

aquariancore · #5 (**permalink**) 21-04-2007, 02:50 AM

would .htaccess help with the mirroring of sites? (I hope I did that right)

monaghan · #6 (**permalink**) 21-04-2007, 08:28 AM

I doubt it, the problem with mirroring is keeping the content in sync, with a static site this is not too difficult, with a data driven site you need to look at database replication, potentially in real time. You also need to consider how you will handle session data as potentially page 1 could be read from server A, then post data back which will get handled by server B. Lots to think about even if you're mirroring on the same subnet, mirroring over 2 or more datacenters is even more fun