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Anonymous posted this at 09:52 — 12th February 2000.

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I'm pretty new to this webhosting thing so please bear with me.

AS you know, you can list 3 IP addresses for your domain (as listed on the WHOIS database). Let's say I have my site on Interland and a mirror site on Burlee. Let's say Joe Schmoe types my URL and the Interland's servers are down. Is there a way to reroute Joe Schmoe's request to Burlee's servers?

roBofh posted this at 11:54 — 12th February 2000.

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You're not actually listing 3 IP addresses for your domain, but 3 nameservers that translate your www.domain.com to the IP address. I'm not sure if you can do this cross-web-host, but within one web host you can usually pay for them to monitor your site, and if it goes down, to automatically have another server take over the load.

Rob Radez
OSInvestor.com

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