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ww520 on June 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon EC2 down?

If your site has little dependency among itself, then you can use DNS round robin to include IP's from all hosting companies.

rlpb on June 15, 2012 [–]

If you use DNS round robin, then you pretty much guarantee that everyone will be affected if just one hosting company is down. DNS round robin is not the tool for this job.

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