FMS 3.5 failover methods best setup for live stream

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Hello, I have a question regarding FMS 3.5 and live streaming with failover protection. Currently, we are running a single server with FMS 3.5 for our VOD and live streaming events and its been working great. Recently during our last live video stream the server decided to die and naturally the live stream was lost. To prevent such a future scenario from happening, and given that I am on limited budget what would be a best method of prevention. I saw there is limited documentation on setting up origin to edge, or two origin servers (more likely for us since we can maybe purchase one more server at this time) but I do not have access to make network/router changes etc. I do have full access to configure my Windows 2003 servers however. How could I approach this?

SE_0208 · Answer

Since you don't want to network routers/load balancer way and also have limited budget - you can basically set up back up server with FMS installed on it and have failover logic built in clients so that they can reconnect to back up server when your primary server goes down.

Meaning you have now two servers , server1 and server2. So when you publish live content, you publish to both your servers. Your client will have code to monitor stream status and netconnection status - if you find there is no data coming or connection has gone down, you can switch to your back up server.

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