There definitely are good providers. I host my company’s tracking application with one. Our auditors have done their due diligence and gave them a high rating.
Every night I run a script that backs up my MySQL databases and all application code (this would be equivalent to your blog including themes, etc). The script can connect to a remote server and FTP the backup to it.
Twice a week, I do a full backup that can be used to restore on a similarly configured server.
This has been a proven model since April 2011. In that time there has been 1 outage for several hours (router related), and no more.
This model replaced a 3-server setup, where we had a development server, a test server, and a production server. We used Git to stage changes from one to the other. Much too complex and error-prone.
Why not use cloud servers to host your blog? You can get Content Distribution Networks (CDNS) involved, which is a cutting edge solution nowadays. The core is technology similar to Google Load Balancing technology that ‘distributes HTTP(S) traffic among groups of instances based on proximity to the user, request URL, or both.’ You will have to acquire such services and the cost equals the amount of data consumed on servers. Obviously the cost will grow correspondingly to server capacity reached for user, but if your ROI is well-calculated this is an operating expense. Another question is finding a hosting management system with well-balanced GUI to manage multiple cloud servers. Do not waste money on majors and switch over to new, relatively cheap and enough functional services.
If both blog sources have different URL’s and the same content, Google will create a penalty for duplicate content.
Not strictly true. My understanding is that (in the absence of canonical links) Google is likely to regard one as the original and simply ignore the other.
I am not sure how Google will treat the duplicate content, best way is to create a Google Webmaster’s Tools account and monitor progress.
As far as a canonical link is concerned it seems strange to link to another server. Maybe best if one server has the following header tag:
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />
Using multiple servers for the purpose the OP asked about would not use different URLs. Both servers would share the same URL.
Can you show a simple example of the two different URL’s and how they point to different servers?
My hosting company hosts my two Wordpress blogs. They automatically back them up each evening. IN addition, if I wish, I can do an export to my hard drive. That means if the hosting company burns to the ground, I can choose another host, select the WP install, and upload my WP files and it is as good as new.
Hi Anilkagi,
According to your requirement, virtual private cloud is the best suitable option for you to choose, as it will serve you with multiple servers ( you can make 1 primary server and rest can be secondary server). If your main server is busy with existing traffic it will automatically switch your visitors to another server based on the nearest location .
You will never face down time with Cloud VPS, once you start getting heavy traffic on your blog, you can easily switch to public cloud with CDN option. You do not need to worry about server management, just focus on website’s content and promotion. Server related all issues will be managed by your cloud service provider 
A tad old post but, here is an answer.
Showing the same content from two servers to hundreds of web servers is made possible by passing the traffic through one or more load balancers, these will then decide how to distribute the traffic according to the rules they have been setup with.
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