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Backup tunnel: how to survive a VPS outage without losing clients

Vast Sale editorial, 32 min

The provider announced maintenance: a server reboot, thirty to forty minutes. The problem is that every VPS sitting with one provider in the same data centre reboots at the same time. For a host in Russia that is not a pause but a broken tunnel on every machine at once.

The solution is a backup VPS with another provider in another country, which the rigs jump to automatically. Below: what happens to the reliability score, why the usual advice does not work, and a ready script that switches over and rolls back on its own.

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01 What breaks when the VPS dies 2 min
02 The traffic path and the three binding files 2 min
03 What really lowers the reliability score 3 min
04 Live runs: what the measurements showed 4 min
05 What the failover does and what you need 3 min
06 Installing the failover 7 min
07 The link watcher 2 min
08 Day-to-day operation 4 min
09 Common pitfalls during installation 5 min
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