Maybe going off on a tangent here, but why are you using apache as a web
server? Orion works perfectly well as a web server as well as an app
server (and much faster and more robust). Also, you can plug in support
for things like php if you need them - see www.orionsupport.com for details.
You could feasibly use jBoss or TomCat as an alternative app server, or
WebLogic if you've got tons of cash, but I would be surprised if the first
two are as stable and reliable as orion (your mileage may of course vary),
never mind scalable.
I haven't used apache for about 6 months now, and I have to say I don't
really miss it :o)
Cheers,
Dan/tastapod
ps. As for official support, I believe this is something the dev team are
looking into, but I haven't heard any formal announcements yet. I find
that asking around the usual channels - mailing list and irc to name a
couple - often resolves my problems and even more often gives me new ideas.
At 11:06 11/04/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Thanks for your input Dan,
>
>The dilemma that we face is not a question of failover. We propose to have a
>hardware loadbalancer such as local director fronting a number of apache
>servers that talk to a cluster of J2EE application servers, which in turn
>talk to a clustered database. This gives us scaleability and reliability.
>
>Our problem is that our users rely on our site being up all of the time. If
>our site is down for even a day we could pottentially to lose all our users.
>
>I understand your suggestion of using orion as a backup, but if we were to
>find a fundamental fault in the server then no matter how many orion servers
>we used we would not get away from it. And at present there is nobody
>(officially) that we could turn to for support to help resolve the issue.
>This makes company directors very nervous and with a big emphasis put on
>uptime and availability of our site they have to buy into the solution.
>
>On a simmilar note. It seems that the orion load balancer app becomes a
>single point of failiure and I have read many accounts of it being buggy and
>slow.
>
>Do you know of any way of replacing this application transparently with an
>alternative and keep session integrity? I read an old posting suggesting a
>product called FOUNDRY. Does any one have any more info on this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Calvin
>
>
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>To: Orion-Interest
>Subject: RE: Alternative Deployment
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>
>Following up the failover approach,....
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