I've been involved with hardware solutions some by putting a load balancer in front of two servers running CF. The loadbalancer can determine if a server is down and direct all traffic to the other server if it is up. I have also setup JRun clusters for software based LB and failover. But so far from my experience this doesn't work that well for failover. Each time we had issues it was due to third party calls in the CF code, which brought all JRun instances down. :(
We currently use a failover thingy for our DB server using some sort of Oracle instance failover stuff. Stuff I have no knowledge of, but basically we have two servers, one sits mostly idle and has a mirror of the others data and plays the role of failover server. In the event the main server dies, everything fails to the failover server. HTH some...IMHO, if you can, go the hardware LB path. DK On 12/7/05, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting suspicious because this is the third message I've sent to > the list in the last few weeks that generated no responses whatsoever. > Doesn't anyone have any comments on failover/redundancy in a coldfusion > environment? > > Rick Root wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been asked to investigate options for adding some redundancy to our > > server setup. > > > > We're running coldfusion MX 7.0.1 Enterprise on one server, and my boss > > is interested in some options that will increase our uptime and > > reliability, through failover, clustering, load balancing, etc.. > > > > I have very little knowledge and even less experience in this area, so > > I'd like to ask the list... > > > > Those of you that are running Coldfusion servers in some kind of > > environment that does what I want to do... what are YOU doing? > > > > I should say that what we're looking for is redundancy more than load > > balancing - we don't tax the server at all. > > > > Our current setup - we have 1 web server (a poweredge 2600) running IIS > > 6 and Coldfusion MX 7 and 1 database server (a poweredge 4600) running > > SQL Server 2000. both servers are running Windows Server 2003. > > > > My boss is willing to spend money on hardware additions, which may > > include additional servers for clustering, failover and whatnot... NAS > > for centralized file storage, etc. > > > > thanks for your input! > > > > Rick > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:226415 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
