From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 29 17:13:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6F1153E6 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:13:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id RAA14536; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:13:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA03536; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:13:05 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA17516; Tue, 29 Jun 99 17:13:04 PDT Message-Id: <3779610F.AD0A55A0@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:13:03 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Miguel Gilly Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering References: <199906291855.SAA21433@luna.pingnet.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Miguel Gilly wrote: > > Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More > http://www.bonsai-studio.com > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Dear Sirs, > > I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant > clustering capabilities for ISP applications. > > Nowadays I feel that it is a far better choice to choose a x86 Unix cluster > over the expensive Sun/SGI SMP servers. > > I found some affordable tools for Linux, but almost nothing for FreeBSD. I > feel such an ability would raise the value a lot of FreeBSD. Define clustering. If you mean a bunch of boxes that serve up HTTP requests and the lot of them continue working in the face of a failure on one, you CAN do this with FreeBSD, and the "Beowulf" software you're probably thinking of for Linux WILL NOT do this. You do this on FreeBSD (or Linux or Solaris) by creating a "layer 4 router" or HTTP switch that directs traffic evenly among your several web servers, and stops sending traffic to servers that have failed. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message