The Two Kinds of Failovers

Active/Active

• Pros
  • Global Load Balancing (GLB) supported
  • Automated fail over
    • Less down time
  • Automated or manual roll back to primary in most cases
• Cons
  • (Generally) More expensive then active/passive fail over
  • Setup is more complex
• Notes
  • If we are going to pay for a colocation site why not utilize it?
  • Real time data replication Continue reading The Two Kinds of Colocation Failover →