Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-14 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hello Christian, >From the keyboard of Christian, > Hi > > Much is written about High-Availability servers but I still didn't find a > good solution how to build two load-balanced webservers _without_ > connecting them both to one RAID (single point of failure). > > The problem with balancing b

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-14 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hello Christian, >From the keyboard of Christian, > Hi > > Much is written about High-Availability servers but I still didn't find a > good solution how to build two load-balanced webservers _without_ > connecting them both to one RAID (single point of failure). > > The problem with balancing

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-11 Thread Christian Hammers
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 06:14:23PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > 1) Use rsync to transfer files, and for writes have some sort of database > push (EG use ssh to run a program on the primary server which does the > update). Then of course the data you read won't be as new as the data you've > w

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 18:47, Christian Hammers wrote: > Much is written about High-Availability servers but I still didn't find a > good solution how to build two load-balanced webservers _without_ > connecting them both to one RAID (single point of failure). > > The problem with balancing between tw

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:09:01PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > RAID on Network Block Devices. You get the benefits of RAID, but over a > > number of different machines, perhaps even on different networks if the > > topology allows for the performance requirements. > Does it really allow writin

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Christian Hammers
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:09:01PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > RAID on Network Block Devices. You get the benefits of RAID, but over a > number of different machines, perhaps even on different networks if the > topology allows for the performance requirements. Does it really allow writing in *both*

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Much is written about High-Availability servers but I still didn't find a > good solution how to build two load-balanced webservers _without_ > connecting them both to one RAID (single point of failure). RAID on Network Block Devices. You get the benefits of RAID, but over a number of differen

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:09:01PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > RAID on Network Block Devices. You get the benefits of RAID, but over a > > number of different machines, perhaps even on different networks if the > > topology allows for the performance requirements. > Does it really allow writi

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Christian Hammers
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:09:01PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > RAID on Network Block Devices. You get the benefits of RAID, but over a > number of different machines, perhaps even on different networks if the > topology allows for the performance requirements. Does it really allow writing in *both*

Re: replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Much is written about High-Availability servers but I still didn't find a > good solution how to build two load-balanced webservers _without_ > connecting them both to one RAID (single point of failure). RAID on Network Block Devices. You get the benefits of RAID, but over a number of differe

replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi Much is written about High-Availability servers but I still didn't find a good solution how to build two load-balanced webservers _without_ connecting them both to one RAID (single point of failure). The problem with balancing between two servers is that the might host web-servers that could

replicating, balanced web-server with *write* access?

2001-11-10 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi Much is written about High-Availability servers but I still didn't find a good solution how to build two load-balanced webservers _without_ connecting them both to one RAID (single point of failure). The problem with balancing between two servers is that the might host web-servers that coul