From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 24 9:10:19 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 5009C37B496 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14004 invoked by uid 84); 24 Apr 2002 16:09:10 -0000 Received: from aris@caldera.com by clavin.ut.caldera.com with qmail-scanner-1.00 (uvscan: v4.1.40/v4155. . Clean. Processed in 0.63465 secs); 24 Apr 2002 16:09:10 -0000 Received: from severn.uk.caldera.com (10.126.20.2) by mail.ut.caldera.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 2002 16:09:09 -0000 Received: from uradoos.uk.caldera.com by severn.uk.caldera.com with smtp id aa17904; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:08:36 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3CC6D884.7070100@caldera.com> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:08:36 +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: Aris Stathakis Cc: Emre Bastuz , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTTP Load Balancing and Availability Solutions References: <3CC6A5D2.3070701@emre.de> <3CC6D787.6080504@caldera.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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