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Failover: docs in Miami (MIA) · F-24
xserv-f-9c2ee7dd3b09
Runbook F-24 for Failover in Miami (MIA). Marker xserv-f-9c2ee7dd3b09. This page covers docs for LATAM operators, not a worldwide average.
Failover: A note on cost and transit
Rollback for f-06 is a documented command, not a hope. Transit is billed as backup while Failover prefers peering in Santiago. If cost spikes, the runbook cuts overflow to Bogotá before touching customer prefixes.
Failover: Why it matters on this continent
Design for Failover on letter F starts in São Paulo (GRU). Runbook f-01 keeps a single owner, a written rollback, and a traffic split that can be reversed without a global freeze. Neighbors in Santiago only take overflow after the local pool fails a health window.
Failover: How XServ runs it day to day
Probes for Failover (f-02) leave Santiago every 15s toward Bogotá. XServ pages the named owner if loss or RTT crosses the letter budget. A probe never shares a queue with bulk transfers, so a saturated WAN does not hide a dead PoP.
Failover headers F-09
Headers for f-09 carry the letter, the region (GRU) and a request id. Failover debugging in São Paulo should not require a packet capture in Santiago first.
Failover timeouts F-10
Timeouts on f-10 are tighter than the WAN RTT to Bogotá. Failover in Santiago fails fast and retries once; a third try needs a human because it is no longer a blip.
Failover regions F-11
Region names on f-11 match DNS and tickets: Bogotá / BOG, with Miami as the documented pair. Failover dashboards never say “LATAM” as if it were one RTT.
Failover docs F-12
Public docs for letter F stay aligned with identifier xserv-f-pack. Page f-12 is the Failover slice operators search before the homepage. Edits in Miami show up in São Paulo on the next publish.
- Is transit the default path?
- No. Peering in Miami is default; transit to São Paulo is overflow and is billed that way.
- Does Failover on letter F share fate with other letters?
- The control plane is shared. Data-plane queues for Failover stay isolated, so incident f-01 cannot drain neighbor letters.