Apache cluster?

Magnus Andersen mag.andersen at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 17:05:45 UTC 2005


Chris,

What do you consider dynamic content? And how do I do a DNS round-robin?

Thanks,
Magnus

On 11/18/05, Chris St. Pierre <stpierre at nebrwesleyan.edu> wrote:
>
> Magnus--
>
> If you've only got apache running, with no dynamic content, you can
> try mounting the MSA500 read-only on both boxes and do a DNS
> round-robin between them. That'll get you load balancing. For
> failover, look into Linux-HA; this would be a really simple setup,
> because the heartbeat would just need to bring up a virtual interface
> on the box that remains alive.
>
> If you have dynamic content, then it becomes orders of magnitude more
> difficult because you can't (or can, but don't want to) mount the same
> block device by two different boxes _except_ as read-only.
>
> Chris St. Pierre
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Nebraska Wesleyan University
>
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Magnus Andersen wrote:
>
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I have 2 HP DL380s and a MSA500 array that I would like to set up in a
> >clustered configuration. I want the cluster to be acting both load
> balancing
> >and failover for Apache. I looked into RH Cluster Suite, but it looks to
> me
> >like I have to have an additional couple of servers to make it load
> balance.
> >
> >Have anyone done this or know of some software that will do it?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
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