Mirroring a WP site as fallback

  • gatego

    (@gatego)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there,

    i’m running for a client a bunch of commercial sites. Due to some server problems during the past weeks (strato) wich resulted downtimes up to 1.5 hrs the client asked to set up a fallback system.

    My idea is to mirror a clone site to a different server which can be accessed by using a virtual IP (cluster IP).
    The question is, how can I setup an automatic mirroring process which clones the site every couple of days. Is there a plugin maybe available which can do it with all the needed adaptions to the database and permalinks as well?

    Thank you for your input
    cheers
    Chris

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  • JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    You might want to talk with CloudFlare for any solution they might have. That might actually be the best solution. If this is in response to the CloudFlare issues from the other day that was mostly router table and BGP issues at Level 3 or one of the other backbone providers.

    You can run several different schemes to provide a second ‘failback’ site but that’s outside the scope of WordPress itself.

    One option you might consider would be a couple replications running a static version of each of your sites if they are not too interactive.

    WP2Static is a plugin that will generate static sites from WordPress which you could then deploy to several servers. You’ll need to load balance those but Nginx or Apache should be able to help you with that.

    Caveat: WP2Static doesn’t play well with WooCommerce and a few other systems.

    A possible workaround would be to place the eCommerce storefront on a separate WordFence instance out on the Cloud itself where the likely hood of the storefront being unavailable would be much lower.

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Talk to a few hosting companies and see what they can offer. Some can do redundant repolications as youve thought of, and can get that set up for you. Others can have VPS servers that are “portable” (to apoint) so that if something goes down they get shifted to another active server that continues to run the site There’s many different options available, and most of them should be able to be set up automatically by a good hosting company.

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