Infrastructure

Failover

Failover means keeping a complete spare system standing by somewhere else that takes over automatically the instant the main one dies. The switch happens in seconds, with nobody making a phone call. It is not the same as a backup: a backup restores lost information later, while failover keeps you trading right now.

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