Re: Securing web site with redundancy ?

[John Kinsella <jlk () thrashyour com>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:09:56PM +0100, 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.
>
> We would have 2 Windozes in a DMZ with IIS as the web server, and a pix firewall between the dmz and Internet. Is 
> there any tool allowing this out there ? I tried to google quite a while, but without any chance...
>
> Some one has an idea ?

Benoni - it's a pretty common feature for hardware load balancers.  Not
sure if any of the software load balancers do it, then again I'm not a
huge fan of sw load balancers...

John

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