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**bilbus** · 06-14-2009, 02:42 PM

Another option, is to co-lo your server somewhere. You can still maintain your own server, it would just sit in a data center and you would pay a monthly fee for power, cooling, and bandwidth. You would then setup a ipsec vpn between your office and the datacenter.

If you used ESXI you could put a few servers there for 1U worth of rack space (well 2x 1U, you should have a on site backup server where you can backup data to HDs or tape.)

ESX has changed the data center world in regards to density.

In this situation, you would have 2 internet connections in the office ... say two routers (or a multiwan router) When source 1 goes down, you would switch it to source 2.

After the switch you will have internet connectivity again, and would be able to access the web, and the VPN to the datacenter.

06-14-2009, 02:42 PM	#4 (permalink)
bilbus TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 955 OS: OS2 Warp	Re: We need a Backup Internet Service Another option, is to co-lo your server somewhere. You can still maintain your own server, it would just sit in a data center and you would pay a monthly fee for power, cooling, and bandwidth. You would then setup a ipsec vpn between your office and the datacenter. If you used ESXI you could put a few servers there for 1U worth of rack space (well 2x 1U, you should have a on site backup server where you can backup data to HDs or tape.) ESX has changed the data center world in regards to density. In this situation, you would have 2 internet connections in the office ... say two routers (or a multiwan router) When source 1 goes down, you would switch it to source 2. After the switch you will have internet connectivity again, and would be able to access the web, and the VPN to the datacenter. Last edited by bilbus; 06-14-2009 at 02:45 PM.