: How to setup a fully functional "mirror" of a website? PREMISES: I have a wordpress website hosted in a shared-hosting Since it's a shared hosting, I share the same ip with other GoDaddy customers

@Kaufman445

You can't afford a dedicated IP but you need another IP? What's the point of getting another shared IP then?
If you want an independent IP you'll have to chip in, and i don't think it's that expensive - quite the contrary. Search around for colocated VPS services with static IPs and root ssh access. If their services don't fulfill all your needs, you can always use that service as a front end and proxy the requests to your other IP (although you're, again, back at square one as far as blocking goes).

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@Kimberly868

@qsylalyn is right, syncing both ways is nearly impossible in any sort of realtime basis. At that point, you're really talking about a multi-master MySQL server configuration between two different servers.

One option is to periodically export your website to an XML file via the WordPress export plugin and then import on the second site. Expect some breakage with things like hard-coded image locations, etc, so you'll need a search-and-replace plugin to fix that up. You can run that site in read-only (or treat it as read-only, since without special configuration people could still leave comments on the second site).

Another option is to put CloudFlare in front of your website. (We highly recommend CloudFlare to all of our customers.) This will give you a temporary (but cloudflare-hosted) error page whenever you're down (and also give you tons of other speed and security benefits.)

Unfortunately, this is an area where the design of WordPress (tightly coupled to a MySQL database) makes it pretty hard to have a geographically distant HA/DR backup.

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@Annie201

The syncing both ways will be very difficult, and as usual GoDaddy will manage to mess it all up. I highly recommend you leave them like I did and go for DigitalOcean (I am not a part of them) at digitalocean.com. It looks all complicated and all but actually isn't, and they will give you a free dedicated ip.

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