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Re:Client asks for 100% uptime by illumin8 on Friday September 30, 2011 @09:39AM (#3056922)
There is a lot of room in this market for competition from open source projects. Really, the concept is so simple that it could be done with a shell script for simple failover:

(pseudo code) if (curl http://ip of main site) fails then copy alternate zone file to bind dir service named reload fi

You get the idea... F5 Networks is really just a fancy DNS server running on a BSD based OS on an x86 appliance. Zeus, which another commentor mentioned, has an AWS version and will let you run it on your own hardware if you like.

I'd love to see some open source competition for this space, or even low price competition.

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Re:Client asks for 100% uptime by marquis on Saturday October 01, 2011 @06:02PM (#3061254)
>I'd love to see some open source competition for this space, or even low price competition.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Running our own failover system is not just expensive, but time-consuming - just another thing to do when you are trying to scale and time is already short within a small team.

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