Re: [plug] HIgh availability requirements

2013-03-01 Thread Federico Sevilla III
Hi Ariz, I agree that simple failover configurations are "so yesterday". Having said that, they seem to remain the lowest-hanging-fruit solution for those needing to eliminate a single point of failure without the time and budget to extend this to a proper load-balanced configuration. What are you

Re: [plug] HIgh availability requirements

2013-03-01 Thread Holden Hao
> Implementing a Failover cluster to run a redundant website infra > sounds lazy to me. You should consider implementing a Load-Balanced > Cluster instead. Start by looking into the following tools: > - Load Balancer: BigIP or simply use Apache HTTPD's mod_proxy_balancer[2] > - Replication of Web A

Re: [plug] Linux distro in Filipino

2013-03-01 Thread Rage Callao
Deja vu Yup. Willing to help here. Email mo na lang ako kung ano kailangan mong tulong :) On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:03 PM, claive alvin Acedilla wrote: > Ramil, this is very good by DepEd because there are no translation efforts > in the Philippines. > In the Middle East, everything in English m

Re: [plug] HIgh availability requirements

2013-03-01 Thread Ariz Jacinto
Hi Bong, Your question reminded me of my projects and PLUG presentations[1] back in 2002 -2005. I'm just surprised to hear that people are still recommending the use of Heartbeat/DRBD for implementing a redundant website infrastructure. Back then, DRBD isn't fast enough for our application and mad

Re: [plug] HIgh availability requirements

2013-03-01 Thread Federico Sevilla III
Hi Bong, I agree with Christian in that the DRBD (RAID-1 over LAN) + Heartbeat would be the top-of-mind suggestion for your requirement. Applied somewhat literally, you end up with the unfortunate situation of having one server sitting idly, possibly even failing without anyone noticing, until one

Re: [plug] HIgh availability requirements

2013-03-01 Thread Christian Foronda
Hi Bong, I usually do DRBD+Heartbeat for HA setup. DRBD for realtime sync (aka network RAID1) and Heartbeat for communication between the two servers. http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Heartbeat http://www.drbd.org/ Hope this helps. Regards, - CF On Mar 1, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Caloocan Gangsta wrote