hosting a server on 2 ISP's?

[singion]

Im just wondering if anyone knows if its possible to host a server on two isps at the same time.

by that i mean 2 seperate modems plugged in via ethernet to the computer, some players having one ip others having the other ip.

I ask because the server I currently run is running off the fastest broadband currently available in my area in the uk but every so often we hit a fair usage policy that cripples us for a few hours, My idea is that if we should share the load accross 2 connections we could avoid the fair usage altogether.

Does anyone know if this is even possible. Im not on about combining the 2 lines into 1 faster but rather keeping them completly seperate and plugged in via 2 seperate ethernet ports.

cheers for any help and I hope ive explained myself clear enough

[robotnikthingy]

well, you can run a virtual machine on your computer which runs one of the minecraft servers, and assign it one of the ports. then assign the server thats not running on the virtual machine to the other port.

And then i know there is something out there that would allow you to stitch 2 minecraft servers together, but i cant remember what its called or if it even supports tekkit

[havocx42]

Yes it's possible. There are two possibilites

1. Use DNS load sharing to share(not neccessarily equally) the connections from clients to two different internet connections.

2. Use DNS failover and WAN failover to switch over to a second connection when the first one fails.

I think you want the first option, to do this you will need to get a load sharing service from a DNS provider. Then you simply setup your router (or whatever is connected to both internet connections) toforward the same ports on both interfaces to your internal Minecraft server.

Clients connecting will be arbitrarily supplied one of the IP addresses when resolving your hostname, then the router will forward their connection to the minecraft server. The NAT service on the router should handle the responses to the client.