Back up VPS

[ShenPixel]

With the repetitive downtime associated with Snake, I've been pondering if a backup vps would be advisable. I'm not positive of the process but I know it's done with dedicated servers, if one goes offline the second picks up seamlessly.

Is something like that possible with vps's or could one have a set of vps accounts on different ip's with a few accounts on each and have a dns server to point to the server where the account is?

I hope this makes sense, I'm trying to think of a way to spread out the accounts I have and possibly limit downtime as much as possible.

I have a tendon tear in my knee and had to take some pain meds so I'm not making myself as clear as I could normally.

TIA!

[chattr]

With the repetitive downtime associated with Snake, I've been pondering if a backup vps would be advisable. I'm not positive of the process but I know it's done with dedicated servers, if one goes offline the second picks up seamlessly.

This is called a fail-over where secondary machine picks up after the primary goes down.

Is something like that possible with vps's or could one have a set of vps accounts on different ip's with a few accounts on each and have a dns server to point to the server where the account is?

This will have to work differently on VPSes. VPSes need to be on different machines to avoid downtime, DNS trust needs to be established between the two machines with ns1 pointing to first server's IP and ns2 pointing to second server's IP and TTL of DNS records needs to be minimal to ensure there is minial downtime. As soon as DNS records of old IP (down server) expire, you can change the IP of the site to the other server and sites will come back up on the other server as soon as the TTL period expires.

I have a tendon tear in my knee and had to take some pain meds so I'm not making myself as clear as I could normally.
TIA!

GWS