Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:42:11 +0100 From: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> To: Enriko Groen <enriko.groen@netivity.nl> Cc: 'Tony Saign' <tony@saignon.net>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Redundant setup on a budget?? Message-ID: <20010724154211.C34017@jake.akitanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <510EAC2065C0D311929200A0247252622F7A7B@NETIVITY-FS>; from enriko.groen@netivity.nl on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:06:35PM %2B0200 References: <510EAC2065C0D311929200A0247252622F7A7B@NETIVITY-FS>
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On Jul 24, Enriko Groen <enriko.groen@netivity.nl> wrote: > I'm also thinking of doing this... I'm in the same kind of situation... > Have no experience yet with clustering... Apart from homebrew proprietary systems, I'm in a similar position. freebsd-clustering seems a rather quiet list (to say the least!) so I've started digging around on my own. Due out next month is this: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/serverload/ which might be worth a read. I've already put in my pre-order with Amazon.co.uk, so if it's any good when it comes out, I'll let you know. The way I see it, I'm loathed to spend £20k+ for a decent L4 load balancing switch, when I'm sure there has to be software out there to do as good a job for FreeBSD. I just haven't found it, which means I might have to sit down and look at writing it. Polyserve offer a commercial solution and I believe that a copy of their software is shipped with an eval license if you buy FBSD CDs from Walnut Creek, but I've never played with it. I have however seen it demo'ed at a trade show in London, and to me it looked more suited for the primary/backup configuration, that I also don't wish to use. I have a huge workload on at the moment, but on the bottom of the pile is to dedicate some time to playing with clustering stuff like web, mail and mysql servers under FBSD, documenting up the experience, and putting it up somewhere public. Until that point, do any of you guys have any resources, or even better, whitepapers or (gasp!) software for FreeBSD clustering? Perhaps we should move off to -clustering and continue this... anybody? -- Paul Robinson ,--------------------------------------- Technical Director @ Akita | A computer lets you make more mistakes PO Box 604, Manchester, M60 3PR | than any other invention with the T: +44 (0) 161 228 6388 (F:6389)| possible exceptions of handguns and | Tequila - Mitch Ratcliffe `----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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