From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 29 12:49:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E4D14A0B for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:49:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA25969; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:49:21 -0400 (EDT) To: "Miguel Gilly" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering References: <199906291855.SAA21433@luna.pingnet.ch> User-Agent: SEMI/1.13.3 (Komaiko) FLIM/1.12.5 (Hirahata) Emacs/20.3 (i386-pc-solaris2.7) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.3 - "Komaiko") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Chris Shenton Date: 29 Jun 1999 15:49:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Miguel Gilly"'s message of "Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:51:33 +0000" Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:51:33 +0000, "Miguel Gilly" 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 NT . 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