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Setting up a Snapshot Failover Server using GridPane

  1. Follow the guide on https://gridpane.com/kb/how-to-setup-snapshot-failover-with-dns-made-easy/
DNS Made Easy

We don't use DNS Made Easy. Instead, we use Cloudflare and can manually switch everyone over via the network domain DNS records.

  1. Since we are using wp-ultimo to provision new sites and map domains, we need to make sure the failover server has the WP Ultimo integration activated in the GridPane dashboard under Sites > failover.site > Multisite Settings.
  2. Use the hosts file to set the IP for your local machine to point to the failover server for the network domain (i.e. digitalchurch.app), an unmapped subdomain (i.e. dev.digitalchurch.app), and a mapped subdomain (i.e. digitalchurch.com).
  3. Test to make sure all three domains load properly with SSL from the failover server and work with GridPane to solve if they don't.