At work I've built several webserver farms. You will need to configure multiple apache webservers, and put a loadbalancer in front of it. Either a hardware based loadbalancer,or software-based loadbalancer such as PLB. If you want multiple levels of redundancy, you can configure a load-balanced loadbalancer environment.
Your DNS would resolve to your loadbalancer, which would in turn distribute the load over your various webservers. This loadbalancer should in turn monitor your apache instances and take an instance out of it's "available webservers" table if it goes down. Feel free to email me individually if you require more information. R --- Tony Stocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've spent the better part of the afternoon Googling > for a decent how-to on > how one goes about creating a web server farm. > There are tons of documents > that refer to the concept as an accepted practice, > but I can't find anything > that discusses how one goes about creating one. My > basic goal is to create > a server farm that balances load among n servers, > and creates fault > tolerance because as long as (n - (n-1) ) servers > are up then my web site(s) > are available. This seems to be a basic concept and > one that's been around > for a long time, but even in the Apache mailing list > archives I can't find > anything applicable. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > Thanks muchly! > > Tony > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
