Implementing Redundant Systems

From: Ronnie Yours <ronnie_yours_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:24:31 -0400
Message-ID: <ap12o1$ljf$1@nntp-m01.news.aol.com>

Hi,

We have OAS4.0 running as a web server and oracle 8.1.7 as a database server. This web server points to the database server.

Whenever OAS or the database server is down our website is down completely. We need to have a setup where the downtime is not much... say 1/2 hour at the max.

Whats the best way to implement redundant systems so that we have our site up and running most of the time. We are looking for redundancy for both OAS and the database server.

I suggested Standby databases for the database to the management but one of my coworkers suggested that we do Mirroring of servers... Both OAS and the database server should be mirrored on a seperate machine.(We have windows 2000)

I am not sure how good this solution is and what will be the issues we will face. I am not even sure whether its even good for the Databases( If that was the case why would oracle provide standby database feature)

Also can you please suggest the alternatives I have.

Thanks
Ronnie Received on Mon Oct 21 2002 - 09:24:31 CDT