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On Wednesday 18 April 2007 00:16:24 Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Ferguson, Michael wrote: > > OK. > > Have a standby box prepared and ready, shutdown and waiting. > > If the primary goes down, your users will call you. Go in and simply swap > > it out. No? > > There in lies the problem: they won't call to tell me it's down. > They'll just sit there and complain or wonder and wait till *I* come in > to figure it out. And let's say they do call...do you honestly think > I'm going to wake up at 4 in the morning, drive down to the building to > swap a machine? Would you? :) > Again, Keepalive+LVS will provide you an HA enviroment so you will be able to go to bed without any worries :-) That's what I did some days ago with an apache cluster I was required to set up. If one of the apaches fails, the other one will server all the connections. -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues. |
