Nick recently went with expedio-servers because he wanted high availability for his websites. The company expedio-servers purports that its service will have 99.999% uptime, because their minimum hosting package is 2 AMD servers in a cluster. If one server fails the other server picks up the slack without missing a beat. This is definitely a hosting service that I would enjoy seeing enter the mainstream and hopefully have some competition to bring prices down.

*Uptime:

Since this is cluster configuration, uptime is awesome. I tried rebooting a server, turned it off by “poweroff”, stopped network service, yet sites run happily from other servers without any noticable delay for failover. I saw on the site that you get 99.999% uptime no matter what happens to the server. Gonna try to crash the hdd using fdisk and see if the server still runs. Any other testing ideas are welcome
I was able to verify that all data is sync’ed properly across the servers despite the reboots and poweroffs. I used md5sum to verify data integrity for a raw file of 150MB. Results were good, and md5sum matched on both servers. So the data mirroring is real-time as advertised.

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