Thread: RapidSwitch - Dead?

Originally Posted by Astroman

So, how do I build a high availability cluster? If the Rapidswitch network is going to go down so frequently, it is pointless using them for this. They were the only affordable hosting company I looked at who could offer me virtual IP addresses which I am using with HA Proxy/Heartbeat.

Is there an alternative method of doing this? Can I use DNS distribute traffic?

Well to be fair, you must be on a budget.

If you want a high redundantant setup, lots of money cluster mega setup there are companies on here that would help.

£39 a month colo. Ahhh

I was posting in the old thread.. I wondered why it was so quiet
Is anyone with Rapidswitch?

Phone kept ringing so I never had a chance to look for new posts, heh.

I'm taking a the piss a bit...

Good afternoon,

Because of our unique position in the market as part of a group with Data Centres in 5 UK cities we are exploring the demand for offsite services that we can provide to you. In the past we've had enquiries about the best way to build and design a resilient and "always on" service specifically relating to disaster recovery, backup and failover and we now have the opportunity to offer this in full.

So, if you would like to discuss the use of other data centres within the iomart group for existing/new services or maybe services currently hosted with other companies then please just reply to this message as we would be very interested in discussing this with you as we feel we are now best placed to offer a competitive price and quality of service in a way that no other host in the UK can do.

Regards,

Paul Tacey-Green
RapidSwitch Ltd

They could at least move the PBX or MyServers offsite!

Originally Posted by Astroman

True. I am just thinking about possible alternative solutions atm. Currently paying around £350/month for 4 servers from rapidswitch. Looks like it may be a bad idea to have all the servers with one hosting company, but I don't know of a different way of setting things up than having a single virtual IP pointing at the load balancer. Any suggestions welcome.

I would recommend starting a new thread so we can keep this one on track.

Rapidswitch have confirmed a RFO will be issued to everyone this time.

Originally Posted by Astroman

Hopefully, they will remember to bcc us

That was Poundhost who made that mistake, Rapidswitch just jumped on the "opportunity" ...

Thats me able to go to bed shortly after that little outage.
I bet the missus wont believe why I stayed up though because coincidently I bought an xbox360 today...

They are certainly having a hard time at the moment, but to be fair (and I know the WHT crowd for example won't consider this), you have to take the bad with the good- and their uptime taking away recently has been fantastic previously.

I bet the missus wont believe why I stayed up though because coincidently I bought an xbox360 today...

Haha, best of luck with that!

Originally Posted by Astroman

Any suggestions welcome.

anycast was invented as a sort-of-solution to this issue, but basially there isnt one.

There has been an unscheduled outage, which has affected some of your services:

Date: 08/01/2010
Time: 01:10
Outage Type: Connectivity Interruption
Duration: < 35 minutes

At approximately 01:10 a massive DDOS attack was directed at the RapidSwitch network. This, when coupled with a particular chain of events, has caused a routing issue within the RSH.North cluster.

Our on call engineers were contacted and the offending traffic has been removed from the network. Service was restored at approximately 01:45.

We would like to express our sincere apologies for the inconvenience this will have caused. If you are experiencing any problems as a result of this please do not hesitate to contact our support team immediately and we will look into this for you.

Regards,

The RapidSwitchTeam

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