Re: load balancing and fault tolerance without load balancer

[Bill Nash <billn () billn net>]

NANOG really isn't the forum for this kind of conversation.

That said, look into devices like Alteons, or open source solutions like 
Balance-NG. Even Apache can be used for this with something like 
mod_proxy. Good luck.

- billn

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Joe Shen wrote:

> hi,
>
>   we plan to set up a web site with two web servers.
>
>   The two servers should be under the same domain
> name.  Normally,  web surfing load should be
> distributed between the servers. when one server
> fails, the other server should take all of load
> automatically. When fault sever recovers, load
> balancing should be achived automatically.There is no
> buget for load balancer.
>
>
>   we plan to use DNS to balance load between the two
> servers. But, it seems DNS based solution could not
> direct all load to one server automatically when the
> other is down.
>
>
>   Is there any way to solve problem above?
>
>   we use HP-UX with MC-Service Guard installed.
>
>
>  thanks in advance.
>
> Joe
>
>
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