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/Peo, FreeWebSpace.net
What will be the budget, this days not many hosts are offering cluster server reseller hosting but there are companies who offer good service even in stand alone servers
To truly failover you need to be on separate networks, aka, one server in NY, and another in California. Or even globally separated. Essentially you need two matching accounts, constantly syncing with one another, and set up so that the other jumps in as soon as the other fails. A better setup would be a globally balanced setup with failover via some simple to install tools. But this would require at least a cluster of VPS servers, or dedicated servers if you need the power. You could still have you Cpanel/WHM setup, and do it that way. But few hosts offer this premade on basic shared/reseller accounts as with that you're basically letting 50% of your infrastucture do nothing. And if you need clustering, the shared environment isn't for you and you should look into VPS/dedicated servers.
If you cannot do these things for your business, you need to consider hiring an IT consultant (such as what I do and in a way just did :eek3: ), or find someone that can manage a cluster for you.
The hard part with your request is that sustaining a failover service is not an easy task as the accounts need to be synchronized constantly, it is a tedious task for Shared website hosting, it would be an enormous task for Reseller hosting where each account under the Reseller would need to be Synchronized. As listed before, to truly have a failover service, the failto machine must be on a different network, generally in a different place in the world. The problem with having a failover reseller hosting account, is you pretty much need 2 whole servers to fall over to.
Not to mention the dedicated servers running the Failover detection software, and the DNS Servers to update your entries.
I would estimate a very high price for a truly redundant failover service on a reseller, failover shared hosting is costly, but I would estimate it to be somewhere in the ten fold.
It would more likely be beneficial for most people to stick with a standard reseller, did you require a failover service? What types of websites would you be running?
You will pay more than $40-50 for what you are asking I would suggest increase your budget or put some sort of monitoring software on a VPS so you can change hte DNS if something does happen or put in a backup.
40-50/month? Not going to happen. 10x that amount you can get a good start.