From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 24 9: 5:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ut.caldera.com (mail.ut.caldera.com [216.250.130.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C84937B48A for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12433 invoked by uid 84); 24 Apr 2002 16:04:56 -0000 Received: from aris@caldera.com by clavin.ut.caldera.com with qmail-scanner-1.00 (uvscan: v4.1.40/v4155. . Clean. Processed in 0.586744 secs); 24 Apr 2002 16:04:56 -0000 Received: from severn.uk.caldera.com (10.126.20.2) by mail.ut.caldera.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 2002 16:04:55 -0000 Received: from uradoos.uk.caldera.com by severn.uk.caldera.com with smtp id aa17736; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:04:23 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3CC6D787.6080504@caldera.com> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:04:23 +0100 From: Aris Stathakis Organization: Caldera International User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Emre Bastuz Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTTP Load Balancing and Availability Solutions References: <3CC6A5D2.3070701@emre.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://www.backhand.org/ Supposed to work on FreeBSD Aris Emre Bastuz wrote: > Hi, > > I4m looking for a software that does the job of accepting > HTTP request as a webserver and then distributes these > to other servers - depending on which one is currently up. > > We have a customer who wants some kind of failsafe solution. > Load balacncing is not the main issue - instead we want to > configure one main webserver, in case this one fails the > software is supposed to switch over to the other webserver > for HTML file retrieval. > > After some quick and dirty lookup in Google I found this > software called "FreeQualizer" (http://www.coyotepoint.com), > which sounds nice but is not free. > > If it4s remarkably good, it might be worth giving a try. > Anyone got any experience with this one ? > > Before chosing this one though, I4d like to know if there > are other well known and reliable solutions out there. > > Apache with mod_proxy/mod_rewrite also seems like an alternative > (I found this interesting article on > http://www.devshed.com/Talk/Books/ProApache/page6.html) - I4m > not sure if the mod_proxy/mod_rewrite stuff only works for load > balancing or also can handle outages of the 'backend' servers. > > Any suggestions ? Ideas ? URL4s ? :) > > Thanks, > > Emre > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message