That is why round robin exists. The browser will detect that one ip is not responding and will send the request to the second one.
2008/12/16, Kevin Baker <[email protected]>: > We have tested our app servers for failover. Works great! > > I wasn't sure of best practices for the "www" front-end role though. I was > planning on having two "www" instances setup in round-robin with two elastic > IP's. However, if one of these servers went down, one of the elastic IP's > would be pointing at a "dead" ip until the new "www" instance came up. What > would be the best way to handle this so that we do not have a > single-point-of-failure with our "www" role? > > I was thinking if the elastic-ip for the failed instance was reassigned to > the active "www" instance while the new instance was coming up it would > reduce the down time... > > Thoughts? > > > Thanks, > > - Kevin > > > > -- Envoyé avec mon mobile --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scalr-discuss" 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/scalr-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
