Our DNS host is not running IPV6 on all their DNS servers, as soon as this changes we will re-enable IPV6. It was an oversight when moving DNS records over from the old DNS host.

I'd prefer LVS over DNS failover myself, and if it an even cheaper solution.

why not set Windows to use other DNS then?

I could think of the purpose to anonymously resolv domain names. How does a VPN help me, if Windows does resolv the domain names still using the ISPs DNS? (Note: I've never tried tor so far. The purpo

@miTgiB KuJoe's using "automatic DNS failover with DNSMadeEasy" and that specific solution works fine. Not saying that's perfect, but the best thing you can buy with just a few dolla

@kujoe the last time i played with a 96MB box was with one of our first dns (a venerable pentium pro), it was 15 years ago :-)

- Use a third party DNS with failover

(round robin DNS will lose your PHP sessions; syncing them is too exhaustive.)

@karius - Yes. Sorry, I've never used a dns service... I've relied on bind for most of my work.

You mean like round robin DNS? Any DNS provider should be able to offer you the ability to configure it.

@Kairus - Good point... are there any free dns services that would randomly cycle through a list of IPs for the webserver and check to see if they're online regularly?

Probably just use a DNS service. What if your MySQL VPS goes down? Not really a fail proof system :P. Might want to set up MySQL replication.

Alright so lets assume I'm getting two or four VPS for DNS (each at a different provider), four webserver VPS and 1 larger mysql VPS. or maybe I should have him use a dns service? The goal is to make

Just have a small VPS for the database and two other VPS for a DNS Failover setup then use extns.com and it's pretty self explantory.

Agree with AsuraHosting, I would use one vps for mysql and 1 or more with nginx+php-fpm. You can use a balancer (nginx/varnish/relayd or dns) to scale out.

@Boltersdriveer Because the sale completed on the 26th of Jan and it seems @stancatswon forgot to change some references to me. On the WHOIS however it was his name, only in the DNS Zone it was still

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DNS failover is pointless

I don't agree, with more and more content spread over CDN you can't play with dns ttl without causing nasty effects on you users. Just look how low akamai set the ttl