Exchange failure.

[EduardoA]

We are migrating two companies onto one exchange server located in CA. MY question is the following: Is there a service or company that will accept our email in case our exchange servers go down or link between locations fail. What I am trying to accomplish is, if my servers fail, can incoming email be forwaded to another location meanwhile my servers come back online? If yes, can users check email via a web solution pointing to that location currently accepting our forwarded email?

Thanks for the help!

 

[zephyran]

Your company's ISP may have a service like this. If not, they can probably recommend a company that does.

However, I would personally recommend having at least one more Exchange server at a different location than the main one, if just to keep control of your own mail in case the main server fails. The second one should be in the same Exchange organization, so you can easily have it use the MTA to transfer messages.

If you go the second route, you can have your ISP set up MX records to both your Exchange servers, giving higher priority to the main one. That way, if an outside system can't contact your main server, they'll automatically connect to the secondary one. Then, when connectivity is restored, the secondary one will send the messages to the main server.

 

[EduardoA]

Thanks for the info wildmagpie8. We are still deciding on the solution.