Yes. What you want to do is called "clustering", and it requires 3 or more
hosts (N Web servers plus a cluster manager). TurboLinux has a distribution
called TurboCLuster; last summer, they were giving away CDs of the beta with
reckless abandon, but I haven't heard much about it (and what little I heard
was bad) since last fall.
Very expensive, though -- $1000 for the "small" version. Info at URL
http://www.turbolinux.com/products/tcs/cluster.html .
At 07:31 AM 5/9/00 -0500, Jack Barnett wrote:
>I was wondering if it was possiable to setup 2 or more web servers that
>could provide load blancing and "fail safe" methods.
>
>Say 100 users request the web site at the exact same time, is there a way to
>split this up, so 50 requests goto server a.domain.com and the other 50 to
>b.domain.com?
>
>Also say server b.domain.com went down (unexpectly), would there be a way to
>provide a "fail safe" and have server a .domain.com take %100 of the hits
>(without the users noticing) till b.domain.com gets back online and working
>correctly?
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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