Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:10:34 +0100 From: "Martin Hepworth" <maxsec@gmail.com> To: "Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup Message-ID: <72cf361e0610181110j40655e6cge4722eee8f86fd1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20061018082011.066e8b60@msdi.ca> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20061018082011.066e8b60@msdi.ca>
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Have a look at how Cambridge University (UK) have setup their email. Does alot of this sort of stuff and they've got lots of docs online as to how they did it.. -- Martin On 10/18/06, Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to setup a high-availability setup for mail/web setup > > I was thinking about the following setup: > > 4 servers total: > > Data Servers: > 1 Server holding all the websites data and mail messages. It > would serve these files via nfs to the application servers. > It would also run mysql > > A second server Also sharing it's content via nfs, > replicating it's data though rsync each ?? minutes. The mysql would > run as a slave of the primary > > Application Servers: > Both servers would be running apache, php, sendmail and > posfix and would serve content from the share nfs drive. > > 1- Is this a viable solution, I mean by that, Is it Like this big ISP > are set up ? > > 2- Is there a better way to replicate data than RSYNC (without going > to san of expensive hardware) ? If not, is there a hotsync feature (I > mean by that as soon as server A modify something, server B knows and > replicate)? > > I would appreciate if you could give me feedbacks, suggestions, or if > you see any problem that might happen with this kind of setup. > > Thanks a lot > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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