My site doesn't require high performance as in thousands or even hundreds of requests per second, but we do need the reliability in order to stay in the game. And I don't have a five figure budget to play with. But my needs are simple: just keep the site (both HTTP and SSL) up and running as long as we have connectivity.
Similar material gets covered in the mod_perl guide, so I'm not wandering too far afield. I think.
I have 2 options I've come up with:
1) Build a couple of Linux router/firewall boxes using Linux HA tools
like heartbeat and fake (IP address takeover) along with IPtables. Spend many days making it all work together (well that's what it
looks like from not having done it + previous experience from
learning new software).
2) Buy a couple of used first generation Radware web server directors on the cheap. With any luck, they arrive in working order and do what I want with trivial amounts of effort (again that's a fairly ignorant evaluation). Interestingly enough, no information on the models I can afford shows up on Radware's site.
Who's done this sort of thing, that can clue me in to what I probably don't know about this topic.
