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I am looking for a failover solution for FreeBSD that handles service failover 
if the host or the service dies, and does not need a shared disk.

Polyserve (<URL://www.polyserve.com/> did have an interesting solution in 
Understudy(tm), but they have now moved on to LocalCluster Enterprise(tm) (and 
the Enter_price_ has moved beyond my budget limits...)

Linux-HA's (<http://www.linux-ha.org/>) "heartbeat" only supports failover if 
the entire host goes down.

RSF-1 (<URL:http://www.high-availability.co.uk/>) needs a shared disk.

I am now looking at Failover (<URL:http://failover.othello.ch/>).


Have I overlooked something? What solutions are other people using? 



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