Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have a java server that serve many clients using Sockets
In case of a failure of the main server I wanted a back server to take over automaticaly.
What I did is, I put the ip address and the port of the back up server in the client side and when a timeout occure I just connect to the back up server.
Is it the right decision or I should put the backup server coordinates on the server side and transfer it to the client when it connect ?
Thanks
Having the server send a backup address to the client is a good idea, it is easier to administer this data centrally.
The backup server addresses should be in a property file on the client too however (or in a central configuration databse read by the clients and servers), otherwise it cannot find the backup when it starts while the primary is down.