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TDMWeb - thanks for allyour info - really helpful.
I am on a very small budget (this is my own venture) so I need to start small. I am hoping to host a few ecommerce web sites so want some sort of hardware/data redundancy plan should the disks or other hardware fail on the 'live' server.
I cannot afford two live servers in two datacentres initially (I don't think). I don't want to rent servers as I want total flexibility.
My SLA will have to cover the datacentre failures and compensate the clients for any downtime, but the hardware/data is down to me and I need to think of ways of replacing the server/disks quickly with up to date data as quickly as possible (within reason).
My thoughts were to have two identical servers as that means two of everything that can fail - not sure if the second one needs to be 'online' I guess that depends on how I am going to replicate the data - and that is my problem.
If SQL express does not allow live backups, then I'm stuck. I'll be using .net 2.0 so mySQL is not available. I cannot afford sql workgroup at the moment (assuming the I am correct in thinking it is over 1k).
If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know....... :-(
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