On 6/23/05, Mike Koponick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a newbie to OpenBSD and I'm looking at designing a redundant > webserver and MySQL server. I think I have the MySQL side covered with > the MySQL functionality. > > However, I'm curious to know if anyone has used CARP/PFSYNC as a > "primary" and "secondary" Apache server. The Apache server will use a > virtual name, so an IP address probably won't be a problem. There is a > firewall already in front of the OpenBSD box. > > The goal is to have minimal downtime if there is a hardware failure. > > Thoughts? Suggestions? > > Thanks in advance, > > Mike > >
Luckily for you, HTTP is a stateless protocol, so unless your users in are mid file download, they will not notice a difference if the primary web server goes down. That is also assuming that the content on both your web servers are kept in sync, otherwise they might see old content or access files that aren't on your secondary web server, even though they are on the primary. There are many ways to do that easily enough though, like rsync, or cvs, or some other file server that they both sync to.
