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Are DigitalOcean's nodes/hosts clustered?

Posted on February 6, 2014

Are the hosts or nodes that the droplets (virtual servers) are hosted on clustered or setup for HA or fail over?



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All droplets are hosted on one hypervisor on a RAID disk array and are not replicated automatically. You can however set up HA/fail-over yourself: <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-choose-a-redundancy-plan-to-ensure-high-availability”>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-choose-a-redundancy-plan-to-ensure-high-availability</a>.

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