RE: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-09 Thread Jon Biddell
point...:-) Jon -= -Original Message- -= From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -= [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -= Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] -= Sent: Saturday, 7 June 2003 7:58 AM -= To: Robert Collins -= Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -= Subject: Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers -= -= -= On 2 Jun 2003, Robert

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-06 Thread dazza
On 2 Jun 2003, Robert Collins wrote: Dual homed connection to them, using two separate exchanges and/or connection technologies - on two power grids... you may need to rent facilities to get these two things. And note that not even this will guarantee absolutely seamless failover. A flapping

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-03 Thread Glen Turner
Jon Biddell wrote: Our marketing types want 24/7 availability of our corporate web site - a fair enough request, I guess... However we have a number of restrictions on what we can do; 1. Must (presently) remain with IIS - moving to a Linux/Apache solution may become possible later, but it's

[SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-02 Thread Jon Biddell
Hi all, Our marketing types want 24/7 availability of our corporate web site - a fair enough request, I guess... However we have a number of restrictions on what we can do; 1. Must (presently) remain with IIS - moving to a Linux/Apache solution may become possible later, but it's political

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-02 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 9:17 am, Monday, June 2 2003, Jon Biddell mumbled: 3. There must be NO DISCERNABLE INTERRUPTION TO SERVICE when one fails. Doing a shift-reload in the browser is NOT an option. It must be TOTALLY TRANSPARENT. You're going to get one anyway. If the machine falls over, you're not going

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-02 Thread James Gregory
Let me prefix this: I don't really know what I'm talking about, double check anything I say. On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 09:16, Jon Biddell wrote: 2. Servers must be physically located on different campuses - because we connect tot he 'net through AARNET, we want them on different RNO's. 3.

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-02 Thread Peter Chubb
James == James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Servers must be physically located on different campuses - because we connect tot he 'net through AARNET, we want them on different RNO's. 3. There must be NO DISCERNABLE INTERRUPTION TO SERVICE when one fails. Doing a shift-reload in

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-02 Thread Andrew McNaughton
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, James Gregory wrote: 3. There must be NO DISCERNABLE INTERRUPTION TO SERVICE when one fails. Doing a shift-reload in the browser is NOT an option. It must be TOTALLY TRANSPARENT. James Wow. Well, point 3 makes it pretty hard. As I understand it, James

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-02 Thread Luke Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 09:16 AM, Jon Biddell wrote: 3. There must be NO DISCERNABLE INTERRUPTION TO SERVICE when one fails. Doing a shift-reload in the browser is NOT an option. It must be TOTALLY TRANSPARENT. The marketing types have to

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-02 Thread Chris D.
This one time, at band camp, Luke Burton wrote: On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 09:16 AM, Jon Biddell wrote: 3. There must be NO DISCERNABLE INTERRUPTION TO SERVICE when one fails. Doing a shift-reload in the browser is NOT an option. It must be TOTALLY TRANSPARENT. A good compromise might be to

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

2003-06-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 09:16, Jon Biddell wrote: Hi all, Our marketing types want 24/7 availability of our corporate web site - a fair enough request, I guess... However we have a number of restrictions on what we can do; 1. Must (presently) remain with IIS - moving to a Linux/Apache