Cloud hosting for windows domain controller, possible?

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Published on 2011-11-25T23:21:39Z Indexed on 2011/11/26 1:54 UTC
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We currently host our own domain controller (small company) locally on dedicated h/w. However to mitigate disaster recovery we're considering the use of virtualisation and cloud hosting.

One thought is

Virtual primary domain controller hosted in the cloud + a local (secondary) virtualised server running in the office as a cache?

Is this possible or should I consider something else? We're happy to pay for the decent hosting and DR but this is really out of my experience.

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