Redundant dedicated server idea

[dwh]

VDI has triple redundancy (HAHAHA) but when one site goes down, the redundancy never kicks in so what's the use. But why can't we have redundancy?

I'm paying for dedicated server. You are too. Why not make a deal with a fellow VBer to "share" a server for emergency situations.

So I'm on one network, you are on another. I send a daily backup of my vb to your host and you send yours to my host. If either site goes down, then we build a vb on the backup site and just point the dns to the other server temporarily. As long as the DNS server isn't down, is this doable? At least for underutilized ded servers like mine :)

[DVD Plaza]

You'd have to come up with a pretty convincing privacy policy for your customers, convincing them that this sharing relationship wouldn't compromise the details they trust you with, and as well as a major trust/contract relationship with the other party.