On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:17:22PM -0500, Steve Mickeler wrote: > > Theres a couple of ways you can do this. > > 1) round robin dns : 2 servers with their own IP's, each serving up the > website. If one goes down, you still get a 50% success rate. > > 2) VRRP via keepalived - http://www.keepalived.org/ : 2 servers, 1 real > floating IP that is bound to the active server. If the active server dies, > the IP's are picked up by the standby server and keeps on going. > > 3) LVS ( Linux Virtual Server ) http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ : This > is the most involved setup but will also give you the most scalability and > availabilty by creating farms of local servers that the inbound requests > are balanced across. It can also do enhanced checks on the local servers > to make sure that only healthy nodes are answering requests.
You make it sound as if #2 and #3 are disconnected. But reading the web site for #2 makes it sound as if it only works *with* LVS. Is that not true? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
