Small Redundant web/mail setup

[Martin Hepworth]

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 at 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
>
>
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