From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 12:03:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11092 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:03:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10991 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:03:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10677; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:34:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:34:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mark Castillo cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: webserver mirroring with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000801bd38ed$68a94410$c800a8c0@phineas> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Mark Castillo wrote: > Was wondering if anyone has run multiple (physical) webservers for a site. > Like yahoo.com, they have many FreeBSD machines mirrored. How are the sites > content updated on each machine? What software is used to achive the load > balancing effect? I know how to configure DNS for this, but as far as > technically setting up the server enviroment I am lost. Noting special; just make sure the web servers on each machine can access the space OK. You can just make copies of the servers or link them by NFS (yuck). DNS will take care of spreading the requests around. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message