Is Your Web-Site Ever Down - Honest

JH Software is proud to announce the release of Simple Failover, which is a new, simple, efficient, and in-expensive software based approach to ensuring that your web site is always on-line and ready for business. 24/7 continuous operation is critical when doing business on the Internet. Every minute your web site is not available, you loose sales and your good reputation! Unfortunately, web-servers are vulnerable to all kinds of disasters. Everything from simple power outages and disk drive failures to floods and earthquakes can quickly bring down your web site and ruin you day.

(PRWEB) October 17, 2004 -- The concept of Simple Failover really is simple; it continuously monitors your web-servers to find out which are up and which are down, and then it dynamically updates your DNS records accordingly so that your domain name always points to a functional web-server.

You dont need any fancy failover routers or load balancing devices – just a Windows PC in a remote location such as your home PC to run Simple Failover, update access to your DNS servers, and a minimal backup web-site somewhere, for example on the same home PC, to redirect traffic to when there are problems with your main web-server.

Simple Failover also provides basic server monitoring and status notification.

This is similar to other server monitoring software solutions, with one significant difference:
With monitoring-only software, you might get a message on your pager at 3AM reading:
Web server 3 is down - do something now!"
With Simple Failover the message would read:
Web server 3 is down - but relax, I have temporarily re-directed traffic to server 7".

Key features of Simple Failover:
· Software based monitoring and failover protection of different Internet services including web (HTTP), mail (SMTP, IMAP & POP3), file transfer (FTP), and news (NNTP).
· Works with practically any DNS software, local or remotely, via several flexible DNS update methods.
· TSIG encrypted signatures for securing DNS updates sent over the public Internet.
· Works with DNS round robin load balancing.
· Customizable e-mail notification of server problems detected.
· Extensible through scripting.
· Intuitive and simple GUI interface.
· Integrated online problem knowledge base.
· Configuration file in XML-format for easy integration with other software.
· Comprehensive documentation in PDF format for easy printing.
· Runs on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, and 2003.

Pricing and availability
Simple Failover version 1.00 is available immediately.
Pricing is available for single workstation installation controlling up to 5 server sets or single workstation installation controlling unlimited server sets.

Free trial software is available and can be downloaded from: www.simplefailover.com/download.asp

About JH Software
JH Software is a privately held software development and consulting company founded in 1999 in New Jersey USA and now headquartered in Denmark.

Our software is based on a vision of providing solutions, which are truly simple to use, yet provide powerful features. We make enterprise features affordable and accessible to small businesses - without the need for certified engineers. Our products include the popular "Simple DNS Plus" DNS server software. (See www.simpledns.com).

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