Re: Securing web site with redundancy ?

[Ivan Krstic <krstic () fas harvard edu>]

Bénoni MARTIN wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a way to set up 2 "redundant" web
> servers (identical web sites), i.e. when one crashes, the other one
> takes the connection over. The same thing which is already available
> for firewalls (high disponibility), but with web servers.

With Linux, there is http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org. FreeBSD used to 
offer an application in ports called 'vrrpd' to do something similar, if 
I recall correctly.

Cheers,
Ivan.

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