Date: 29 Jun 1999 15:49:21 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> To: "Miguel Gilly" <mgilly@bonsai-studio.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering Message-ID: <lfzp1i948u.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: "Miguel Gilly"'s message of "Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:51:33 %2B0000" References: <199906291855.SAA21433@luna.pingnet.ch>
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On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:51:33 +0000, "Miguel Gilly" <mgilly@bonsai-studio.com> said: Miguel> I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer Miguel> redundant clustering capabilities for ISP applications. Miguel> Nowadays I feel that it is a far better choice to choose a x86 Miguel> Unix cluster over the expensive Sun/SGI SMP servers. Miguel> I found some affordable tools for Linux, but almost nothing Miguel> for FreeBSD. I feel such an ability would raise the value a Miguel> lot of FreeBSD. If you're talking true close-coupled clustering, my reply's not gonna help :-( If you're talking about web-type servers, read on... Have you checked www.EddieWare.org? It's a (web) load balancer and dynamic DNS, performing somewhat similar functions to commercial products from RND Networks, F5 Labs, Foundry, IPivot, Alteon, etc. Runs on Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, and recently <gag> NT </gag>. I'm just getting into it now, as the F5 folks want an absurd $27K for a single dynamic DNS (two required), and I think their $15K each balancers are a bit high, since it's SW running on BSDI boxes (previously FreeBSD!) running on commodity hardware. I'm not saying the boxes aren't worth it -- what I've seen works great, has a command line interface, seems secure, and even the GUI's good. But I think the Eddie project on FreeBSD would give you 90% of that -- open source. My big thing these days is fault tolerance: at the server level, at the (web) farm level, and at the colo/datacenter level. If I can get that then I can sleep easy while the back-hoes do their work... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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