We have our primary server finally running DNN Professional, as of last night. We are excited to finally have the benefits of the platform available to us. However, we have taken something of a qualified risk and one that I'd like to address soon.

We have two physical servers available to us (for the sake of this discussion - we actually have three but the other is irrelevant). Let's call the production server WWW and the other one WWW2. WWW is happily running the latest version of DNN. We want to get WWW2 running as a standby server. We do NOT need it to be active - we are perfectly comfortable having to do "something" to make it live if we need to switch from WWW.

We are not sure how to handle this. If we were using Community Edition I believe it would be a simple process of restoring from the backup we take each night. However, with Professional we have the additional complications of the license information stored in the database.

How can we address this? Given that the WWW2 server would not be serving content when WWW is running we really don't want to buy another license of Professional (for an idle server).

I'd appreciate any pointers.

Thank you.

Mark

Thank you, Marcel. While that is an attractive solution, we are a very small business and - as far as I understand - the need to purchase two copies of Professional Edition make this prohibitive for us.

Thanks again.

Mark