Systems and methods for failover and recovery of distributed internet services

A system configured to implement a service switching between a first service provider and a second service provider, the system comprising:

• a PSV processing unit configured to communicate with a database;
• the data base storing a preconfigured-selectable-values (PSV) record, wherein the PSV record comprises a first IP identifier associated with the first service provider, a second IP identifier associated with the second service provider, and an active service provider identifier that indicates one of the first service provider and the second service provider being a selected service provider;
• wherein the processing unit is configured to access the database to retrieve the PSV record;
• wherein the PSV processing unit is configured to change the active service provider identifier to indicate the other one of the first service provider and the second service provider as a newly selected service provider;
• wherein the PSV processing unit is configured to, after changing the active service provider identifier in the PSV record, process the PSV record to create a DNS record, and to provide the created DNS record to cause network traffic data to be routed to the newly selected service provider by a network traffic infrastructure according to the created DNS record.