Debian Linux Virtual Server, It's possible?
Hi, I'm planning to build a Debian Linux Virtual Server Internet Web in substitution of a Windows NT IIS based Web, with frontpage extensions, ASP pages and SQL Server. First of all, I know this is a hard task, then I need some advice if possible. My employer has given to me ONE opportunity, and I'm sure that the beast is a real thing. My idea is to build a cluster based web server, ala Linux Virtual Server with DDR, with two heartbeated directors, two real web (and mail) servers, router, switch and related things. The real servers will have RAID-1 scsi disks. Software: debian (potato), apache, sendmail, LVS software, Postgresql in place of SQL Server, and gsp (java gnu server pages) in place of ASP. Initially (is a production web server with huge amounts of data) i must run frontpage extensions, and gradually i'm planning migrate to strict XHTML (and XML in a near future, if THEY haven't put me in the street :-)). Some suggestions?, Have I drunk too much beer?, Help me!!
Re: Debian Linux Virtual Server, It's possible?
Well ... i'm fear ... Imagine an Organization with M$soft products skilled personal only, with a IIS NT web site running ... and a foolish (like me) propose such drastic change... Really i don't have any question (because i'm decided to do it), may be is an alarm shout, or may be is a public compromise only. Do you see some 'hole' in this (very basic) plan?, initially is the only help I'm hope to get. Thank's for your speedy reply. Regards On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 12:25:54PM -0400, Adrian Thiele wrote: > What exactly is the question? What do you need help with? > > > Adrian Thiele > http://tectpd.com > Tec America, Inc. > Thermal Printer Division > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: (770) 449-3040 ext. 177 > fax: (770) 242-9992 > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Carlos José Pérez Sanjuán [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 12:23 PM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Debian Linux Virtual Server, It's possible? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm planning to build a Debian Linux Virtual Server > > Internet Web in substitution of a Windows NT IIS based Web, with > > frontpage extensions, ASP pages and SQL Server. > > First of all, I know this is a hard task, then I need some > > advice if possible. > > My employer has given to me ONE opportunity, and I'm sure > > that the beast is a real thing. My idea is to build a cluster > > based web server, ala Linux Virtual Server with DDR, with two > > heartbeated directors, two real web (and mail) servers, router, > > switch and related things. > > The real servers will have RAID-1 scsi disks. > > Software: debian (potato), apache, sendmail, LVS software, > > Postgresql in place of SQL Server, and gsp (java gnu server > > pages) in place of ASP. Initially (is a production web server > > with huge amounts of data) i must run frontpage extensions, and > > gradually i'm planning migrate to strict XHTML (and XML in a near > > future, if THEY haven't put me in the street :-)). > > > > Some suggestions?, Have I drunk too much beer?, Help me!! > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
Re: Debian Linux Virtual Server, It's possible?
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:21:35PM -0400, Adrian Thiele wrote: > I haven`t played with the gsp pages, however I have used jakarta-tomcat as a > servlet/jsp engine with good success. Well ... jakarta-tomcat is Jserv based, it's sound ok ... ... > you talking multiple machines? How much traffic do you expect? Or are you > just planning for roll over in case of failure . Sounds like overkill, but I that's right ... it's an high availavility 'experience' > don`t know you`re situation. You may also want to consider using Samba for > NFS. It will help windoze users recognize the server drives normally. i yes, yes, but for security reasons, at least in the first moments the thing will be in a 'demilitarized zone' out of the intranet bounds (ftp'ing possible) > much data for the databases? I have found mySql very user friendly , but > currently use an Oracle database due to my employeers needs. I'm considering to begin with SQL Server (ODBC UNIX bridge ...) but as last resort. > Get back with me, maybe we can both learn something Fine! we see in the way! I'll mantain you with 'fresh news'. Tomorrow (or today, I live in Spain ...) I must write the full report.
Re: Debian Linux Virtual Server, It's possible?
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:10:25PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > What do you plan to run on it? A simple web server with very plain > vanilla > .html files runs super-nice. At the moment the html files are 'frontpage garbaged', so I'll have to clean them with too much care. >I applaud your choice to go again > traditional(?) concepts, I battle the same thing here everyday. Thank's ... but the creature isn't running yet :-/ >If you want > a good package to determine if you've got Apache, PHP3, and postgresql all > working together well is imp. I'll take a view >Basically it's a web based e-mail package, > very nice By the way, thanks to all the deb's that suggested it to me ;). > We'll see sooner, regards!.
