Re: sort of a load balancing question

2000-08-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: We are an isp here and we would like to set up two webservers that are completely tranparent(rsync daily). We will only be using one webserver to server all the pages, but if it goes down, we would like the second webserver to

RE: sort of a load balancing question

2000-08-24 Thread Scott Thompson
We do that here. But the difference is it's not totally automated. If the primary server goes down for whatever reason, our admin's pager will go off, he lives 6 minutes from the office and 7 minutes from the backup server in another building. Simply he goes and get's the backup server, restarts

Re: sort of a load balancing question

2000-08-24 Thread Kevin
You could put a linux router infront of them with an ethernet connection to each server and then another out to your main router. Make a bash script to check that the primary is up, if its not have it change the route to go out the other interface, which would be the secondary. -- Kevin -

Re: sort of a load balancing question

2000-08-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: We are an isp here and we would like to set up two webservers that are completely tranparent(rsync daily). We will only be using one webserver to server all the pages, but if it goes down, we would like the second webserver to

Re: sort of a load balancing question

2000-08-23 Thread Robert Davidson
Shao, We are also a small ISP and do exactly that with one of our vital servers. We used rsync for this. Regards, Robert Davidson. On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:30:12PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, This is not a really load balancing question, but similar sort of thing.

Re: sort of a load balancing question

2000-08-23 Thread Robert Davidson
Shao, We are also a small ISP and do exactly that with one of our vital servers. We used rsync for this. Regards, Robert Davidson. On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:30:12PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, This is not a really load balancing question, but similar sort of thing.

Re: sort of a load balancing question

2000-08-23 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:30:12PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: Is there any programs out there that does this? Take a look at: http://www.linux-ha.org/ http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ http://ultramonkey.sourceforge.net/ http://www.eddieware.org/ -- Luca Filipozzi [dpkg] We are the apt.

Re: sort of a load balancing question

2000-08-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Yes. But I would like to know a way to let the backup server automatically take over when the primary web server is down. Thanks. Shao. Robert Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are also a small ISP and do exactly that with one of our vital servers. We used rsync

Re: sort of a load balancing question

2000-08-23 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, ridgey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could put the primary name record on the primary webserver and have the www pointing to itself, then put the secondary name record on the secondary sever and have its www pointing to itself, so when the primary goes down, the secondary will kick in, it