title: HA / Distributed Zabbix Monitoring
body: <p>I am using <a href="http://www.zabbix.com/" rel="nofollow">Zabbix</a> to monitor severall websites using Ping-Checks and HTTP-Service Checks on Port 80. Agent monitoring is not possible due to access rights. My Zabbix server is running on a virtual private server located in Frankfurt, Germany. Everything works fine. My hoster has to do some network hardware updates from time to time which leads to short network outages (~30 minutes) and so monitoring for this period of time is not possible. I planned to look for a seconds VPS at another data center and hosting provider and also started searching for a solution and found something about <em>Zabbix Nodes and Proxys</em>. </p>
  
  <p>Is this the right way to go for me or is it some kind of overpower (its private)? For me it is important to have a ~1 year monitoring history of several websites without outages. I want both zabbix servers to gather monitoring data indepently and get this data merged together in nearly realtime. Maybe there is another solution which also works fine for my requirements? I thought about using a distributed MySQL database with two db nodes or so. </p>