Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-26 Thread Oded Arbel
On Friday 26 September 2003 01:14, Sagi Bashari wrote: If your application is writen as a Java web-app then you can take advantage of clustered Servlet engines, which enable sharing of sessions in a cluster, just for this kind of situations (in addition to the scalability advantage).

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-26 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:21:12AM +0200, Sagi Bashari wrote: So going back to my original question: is there a simple way to synchronize a directory between two linux servers, like rsync does -- but in real time? A directory also has its metadata, which will be a lot harder to synchronize

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-26 Thread Oren Held
Hi, Heartbeat can give you solutions for that.. The only real problem is indeed the storage which you want to be synchronized. High Availability clusters should provide a way for having shared storage (i.e. scsi disk / JBOD connected to two servers), while the main node is down, the other will

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread linux-il
Dan Fruehauf wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:42, Sagi Bashari wrote: Hello, I have a sollution which confronts the problem in a totally different way. Given the time and resources, what you can do is connect both servers to a NAS switch, mapping them the same storage. It's a possible

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 25/09/2003 10:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a sollution which confronts the problem in a totally different way. Given the time and resources, what you can do is connect both servers to a NAS switch, mapping them the same storage. It's a possible solution, but: 1. The NAS is still a

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread linux-il
Sagi Bashari wrote: It's a possible solution, but: 1. The NAS is still a single point of failure. 2. They are talking about having a server at a different location, so they'll need to replicate the NAS as well. We would like to do this with our current hardware at this stage, we already have

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread Dan Fruehauf
On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it was probably my mistake, i said NAS, but i meant SAN (Storage Area Network). I can see people are showing interest, so i'll give some more details on what were doing at work. Assuming one server is always active, and the other one

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread Lior Kaplan
- Original Message - From: Dan Fruehauf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: Re: live website mirroring On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it was probably my mistake, i said NAS, but i

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread linux-il
Dan Fruehauf wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it was probably my mistake, i said NAS, but i meant SAN (Storage Area Network). But still, wouldn't that keep the NAS as a single point of failure? Or is the NAS implemented by some HA cluster of servers? Also,

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Lior Kaplan wrote: As far as I know, the cost of SAN is very high. It also gives your more GB then you need. And if you need less GB than what given - you just pay too much extra on each GB. Also, don't forget the equipment using to work with fiber optic cables (control cards, switches and so

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 25/09/2003 21:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But still, wouldn't that keep the NAS as a single point of failure? Or is the NAS implemented by some HA cluster of servers? Also, the original author said, as far as I understood it, that when the backup server moves to a separate location he won't

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-25 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 25/09/2003 21:58, Lior Kaplan wrote: As far as I know, the cost of SAN is very high. It also gives your more GB then you need. And if you need less GB than what given - you just pay too much extra on each GB. Exactly. Those solutions are way out of our current budget - and right now the

live website mirroring

2003-09-24 Thread Sagi Bashari
Hello We are running a website that is written in PHP and is using a MySQL database. It runs on Linux, of course. We're trying to find a method to setup a complete mirror of the server on a standby server that we can bring up easily if the main server goes down. The website is very dynamic

Re: live website mirroring

2003-09-24 Thread Dan Fruehauf
On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:42, Sagi Bashari wrote: Hello, I have a sollution which confronts the problem in a totally different way. Given the time and resources, what you can do is connect both servers to a NAS switch, mapping them the same storage. Then, in case of failing over, the