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why not just auto-copy everything to AWS and do checks for uptime of your host. Then if the check fails, auto-forward the url to the AWS location.

This way if it hits the fan, the only problem the users will notice is the 5 mins of downtime between the checks, before the site becomes slower due to the switch to AWS

But then again I don't really know hardware so could be wrong. But from what I understand should be possible



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