Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:08:36 +0100 From: Aris Stathakis <aris@caldera.com> To: Aris Stathakis <aris@caldera.com> Cc: Emre Bastuz <info@emre.de>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTTP Load Balancing and Availability Solutions Message-ID: <3CC6D884.7070100@caldera.com> References: <3CC6A5D2.3070701@emre.de> <3CC6D787.6080504@caldera.com>
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More specifically, the Wackamole portion of backhand: http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/ Aris Aris Stathakis wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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