Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:19:59 +0200 From: "Rudi Kramer - MWEB" <rkramer@mweb.com> To: "Michael Christie" <michael@powerzone.net.au>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster Message-ID: <39DC135F7F0571489196E0B6F5D58B4A03B45FC9@MWBEXCH.mweb.com> References: <4898065A.5080008@powerzone.net.au>
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Michael Christie: > I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to > learn. I would like to run some basic services like www and mail on a > test network. I would like to set up the servers so if one server falls > over the other will take over the services automatically, load > balanceing would be good as well. I have googled, I could be looking in > the wrong place , there seems not to be much in regard to seting up > freebsd in a cluster, lots on linux. I have looked at the High > Availability Linux project , I see on the front page that it will run on > freebsd. >=20 > So I am a bit lost and i am wanting to learn how to cluster freebsd web > and mail servers, I have looked at Beowulf clusters, which seem to give > computers more grunt, Can some on on the list please advise me on what > clustering softwhere i need to get started and if the High Availability > Linux project softwhere will do the job. I also did some research a while ago and found Wackamole. It looks pretty interesting as you don't need a central "director" server but all servers in the cluster check each other. It's also in the ports tree :-) Site: http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/=20 Port: /usr/ports/net/wackamole
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