You should have CFent, not CFpro. Yes, I know you're worried about cost, but
it is the most cost effective way to cluster.
RRDNS by itself provides fake load balancing, but it isn't a good solution.
ClusterCats (which is part of CFent), does true load balancing, along with
fail over protection. It works very well for as cheap as it is.
You shouldn't have the data only on one of the servers, because of fail over
protection. Either keep all your templates on a network storage device, or
manually or automatically mirror the directories.
Also, be sure your database server is on it's own separate machine.
Shannon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 11:59 AM
To: Fusebox
Subject: OT: clustering / shared network drive
Hi,
I am considering clustering a couple of our servers. I am running CFpro
4.5.1
My question is two fold. First, without expensive hardware (or expensive
software for that matter) what is the most effective way to cluster/load
balance two servers. Round Robin DNS?
What about data replication. One of the machines in the cluster have a RAID
setup, and I am wondering if it is possible to map a shared network drive?
Alternatively, what is an inexpensive data replication option?
I appreciate the advice. :)
Brook Davies
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