Re: I'll ask again, Linux Clusters

[Alvin Starr <alvin iplink net>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Aaron wrote:

> I'm looking at clustering about 3 or 4 web servers together and using NAT
> to pass between them.  I would like to know if anyone has expierence with
> linux clusters.  I've look at the documentation on http://www.linas.org
> I've also gone to and read the home pages and the mailing lists. (Sparse
> information and mostly complaints on what doesn't work)
> 
> What I would like is to know if anyone has had first hand expiernce with
> it.  I'm in the middle of putting together some budgets, and would LIKE to
> go with alpha hardware, but without being required to goto DU for a
> clustering solution.  

We have done this but not with alphas, although I have at various times
had all the pieces working independantly. The solution I would recomned is
to use squid to do the fornt end proxying and redirection. It has the
advantage that the load to serve up static pages is much lower than apache
and a  reasonalby fast server should be quite capable of proxying several
million hits a day.

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