High availability

Configuring and running virtual SAN with StarWind software

Posted on:: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Author:: shamot

Since we decided to run our production server on 2-node vSphere virtual cluster connected to single SAS disk array where all data is stored we’d like to guarantee this array to be fault tolerant not only when controller (there are actually two redundant controllers) or single disk (secured with raid array) is concerned but as […]

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Custom maintenance page defined as an DNS record

Posted on:: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Author:: shamot

If you are running a web page on server which needs to be taken down due to maintenace reasons you probably need to cope with unrachability of your page during the downtime. This is generally done by serving a simple maintenance page explaining the reasons of downtime and estimated time when the page will be […]

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