[BlueOnyx:12801] Re: OT: Backup MX

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Hi Dan,

On 4/10/2013 12:29 PM, Dogsbody wrote:
>
> I'm intrigued, does anyone run backup MX for their domains any more or
> has spam killed that practice?
>
> Dan

We run 3 inbound MX's for all of our hosting customers.  They are each 
in a diverse geographic location, and each one performs spam filtering 
duties, with logging centralized to a MySQL database on the primary 
system.

Given user propensity to gripe if email hiccups for more than 90 
seconds, I would not consider anything less...

In a "worst case" scenario, we might lose a hosting box, so email 
delivery (reception to the server) would be delayed.  But in the 
meantime inbound mail queues on the filtering systems waiting for the 
hosting box to come back online.

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