In the light of issue with the Newark host being down right now, killing two of my sites - can anyone post some simple strategies for setting up a redundant host for load balancing? Or point me to an existing document?

I would like to know this also especially after experiencing a 5:11 am wake up call this morning as the London DC went down

Is there a sensible way to have redundancy across several DC's with Linode?

load balancing will involve more costs and effort.. if you can afford to, do what i do, just setup a dns failover 'fail whale' site so if main server is down you dns failover to a back web site with a 503 error/maintenance message.

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