Question : Load Balancing

Hi All,
We host our own website locally.  We are going to be installing redundant broadband.  Our DNS service for our website is hosted by our ISP.  Is it possible for the ISP to provide load balancing or at least use the secondary broadband in the event that the primary is not available. I will be installing a dual Wan Router outside of my firewall that that we can have internal load balancing for outgoing data.

Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

Scott

Answer : Load Balancing

>So since they are already resolving the name to my local webserver, why couldn't they just put is a failover entry for a different IP address.
Because DNS is not intelligent enough to work as a failover. If you have more than one entry for www.yourcompany.com, the DNS will round-robin load-share them. If one of them is down, half the users will get "server not found" errors.
Only with MX email records can you provide a priority order for servers to resolve..