Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:45:28 -0400 From: "Robert J. Adams" <radams@siscom.net> To: "Barrett Richardson" <barrett@phoenix.aye.net>, "Francisco Reyes" <freyes@inch.com> Cc: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering Message-ID: <015701bec2ab$6af9bb20$3102fbd1@siscom.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9906292257150.3524-100000@phoenix.aye.net>
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Barrett, Any particular reason you chose the Alteon over the Foundry ServerIron? We are getting ready to pick up a l4 switch and are looking for recommendations. -j --- Robert J. Adams radams@siscom.net http://www.siscom.net Looking to outsource news? http://www.newshosting.com SISCOM Network Administration - President, SISCOM Inc. Phone: 937-222-8150 FAX: 937-222-8153 ----- Original Message ----- From: Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net> To: Francisco Reyes <freyes@inch.com> Cc: Russell L. Carter <rcarter@pinyon.org>; <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 11:07 PM Subject: Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering > > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:00:50 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > > > >%> Define clustering. If you mean a bunch of boxes that serve up HTTP > > >%> requests and the lot of them continue working in the face of a > > >%> failure on one > > > > Just recently found http://www.eddieware.org > > It is a research project for DNS and HTTP load balancing. > > > > > > Check out the ACE Director at www.alteon.com. You give the switch > the IP address of your website, plug each of your servers into > a different port. The switch relays and balances the port 80 traffic to > itself across the servers. > > I use a similar concept with a different alteon swith to do transparant > HTTP cacheing. Work great. If the cache server goes down, the > switch detects it instantaneously (in human terms) and our users > never know (except that the absence of the cache server makes > surfing slower). Works great. > > - > > Barrett > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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