just to push this topic along a bit further earlier this evening (yesterday for New Zealanders now) Kai Koenig did an "intro to clustering and load balancing" Breezo for the QLD CFUG. Thanks again, Kai.
the recording here: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p98927062/ Introduction to Clustering with Kai Koenig Kai Koenig from New Zealand takes us through the basics of clustering and load balancing with ColdFusion, both Enterprise and (believe it or not) Standard versions. Kai Koenig - http://www.bloginblack.de/ hope this helps barry.b On 8/8/07, Scott Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Simon, > > Thanks for your reply. > > Our solution will be on windows as that's our standard operating > environment. > > The hardware environment is being set up by our Systems group, which I > don't have much control over........ > > As it turns out we are setting up two clustered environments... The 1st by > my old colleagues.... So they will be the guinea pig, and hopefully their > mistakes won't be carried over into my system.... > > > > >>> "Simon Haddon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/08/2007 8:30 am >>> > Hi, > > I use a heartbeat (software monitoring the hardware) for failover on linux > and it works very well. When both machine are working there is load > balancing done by distributing the application running on either > server. If > one fails then other consumes the extra required services to keep itself > running till the dead server is restarted. > > This method allows me to use the standard edition and still provide high > availability > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > On 06/08/2007, M@ Bourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Scott, > > > > if your simply after "failover protection" where a server dies for what > ever > > reason and ya don't want down time and the server isn't getting an > intensely > > massive loan then standard with a hardware (don't go a software) load > > > > balancer will do the trick and check if a server has carked it and > direct > > the traffice to the other server/servers > > > > M@ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Cheers > Simon Haddon > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
