High Availability FreeBSD www cluster

[Philippe Laquet]

CARP does the job perfectly!

Is you have to LB/RP from a front end (the SPOF?) you can also take a
quick look on LighttpD with the Proxy module (very simple & efficient)

In a heavier (but also quite simple) environment :

* Two (or more) LB/RP on the front with lighttpdproxy - HA with CARP
* Two (or more) Load Balanced Web "Back End" servers

;)




On jeu, 2008-08-07 at 16:44 +1000, Michael Christie wrote:
> Thank you all for your input. Carp looks like it needs some investigation
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michael
> 
> Peter Ross wrote:
> > 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 at FreeBSD.org>
> >
> > Regards
> > Peter
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