Need your advise for new Server setup

[robin]

thanks al lot for all the suggestions so far. I understand that it is not so usefull to implement two identical virtual servers on one machine... but if you do that, it should be easy to migrate to a second phisical server that may be comes available in the future.

The nameserver i mentioned provides webfailover, this means if the server is not available all trafiic is routed to another server. This is not loadbalancing, but that is not realy neccesarry since it is one server after all and the total load is the same of course. I think this is also a interesting option to consider.
Reasons to implement 2 webservers on the same machine do make sense it think, just considering restarting your webserver because you need to reconfigure something.

Im still going through all the options.... i definetly want to run database, mail and webserver on a seperate virtual host... but im not sure what to do with redundant webservers and database servers yet.

As some of you mentioned im not sure if this is all worth it and if it even does provide more uptime.

Well if someone has better suggetions on how to setup and make use of virtualization on a single server to provide the best availabilty as far it is possible on a single server......