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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:17:12 +1000 (EST)
From:      Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de>
To:        freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster
Message-ID:  <20080807100821.U1526@klein.bigpond.com>
In-Reply-To: <4899D194.6000804@optiksecurite.com>
References:  <4898065A.5080008@powerzone.net.au>  <4899C919.1060903@passagen.se><4899D194.6000804@optiksecurite.com>

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Hi,

Michael Christie wrote:

> I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to learn.
> I would like to  run some basic services like www and mail on a test
> network. I would like to set up the servers so if one server falls over
> the other will take over the services automatically, load balanceing would
> be good as well. I have googled, I could be looking in the wrong place ,
> there seems not to be much in regard to seting up freebsd in a cluster,
> lots on linux. I have looked at the High Availability Linux project , I
> see on the front page that it will run on freebsd.
> 
> So I am a bit lost and i am wanting to learn how to cluster freebsd web
> and mail servers, I have looked at  Beowulf clusters, which seem to give
> computers more grunt, Can some on on the list please advise me on what
> clustering softwhere i need to get started and if the High Availability
> Linux project softwhere will do the job.

pound (/usr/ports/www/pound) can be used on HTTP(S) level.

>From pkg-descr:

The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end 
for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing load among 
several Web-servers, and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those 
Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the 
GPL - no warranty, it's free to use, copy and give away.

WWW: http://www.apsis.ch/pound/

- Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.org>

Regards
Peter



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