Hi Felix, > Can you elaborate a little on how to use Easy Migrate to clone a Vsite > across multiple servers for load balancing purposes or as a creative > backup solution when you want poor man's clustering over two servers?
It totally depends on what you're trying to do. It certainly is not a "one size fits all" solution, nor would I recommend it unless I knew exactly if it would fit your needs and that you could get it to work on your own. If you have a database driven environment with a separate database server? No email hosted on the Vsite(s) in question? Then you could set up a cronjob that runs Easy-Migrate to keep selected Vsites synchronized between multiple servers. I don't even say that this would be a good idea - just that it would work in theory. Knowing your setup and needs I wouldn't recommend it. When you have Email, DNS, MySQL and webpage on the same box you get way too much friction trying to synchronize all of that to a second box at runtime in a productive environment. Over the years I toyed with small scale and affordable "high availability", but truth to be told: The more mechanism you put up for that the crankier the whole setup gets. It gets worse if it's a one-off setup whose intricacies you rarely touch because "usually this just works" and then you have a downtime, customers yelling at you and (due to lack of familiarity with the HA-stuff) don't recall the exact procedure to fit the pieces back together. At the end of the day I definitely had more outages due to the "high availability" stuff crapping out than I would have had on a single regular box without it. This day and age hardware has become so reliable that we rarely see server outages due to busted components. Likewise: Virtualization allows us to have an easily restoreable backup or even a standby-clone of entire VPS's at the ready, which can - in seconds - be fired up when the need arises. -- With best regards Michael Stauber _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
