At the bottom of the page for Installing & Using BigCouch it says: "Cloudant recommends HAProxy." http://bigcouch.cloudant.com/use
Sounds like a reverse proxy is the only way to accomplish this. Unfortunately then becomes the vulnerable link. On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Matthieu Rakotojaona <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Hank Knight's message of 2013-11-06 19:27:56 +0100: >> I would like to distribute a CouchDB database on a minimum of 3 >> servers for the purpose of redundancy. >> >> An attachment could be accessed like this: >> >> http://cdb1.example.com/abc/xyz/image.jpg >> http://cdb2.example.com/abc/xyz/image.jpg >> http://cdb3.example.com/abc/xyz/image.jpg >> >> Is it possible to access the database from a single domain name that >> would automatically resolve to an instance that is running? >> >> For example if the server running on of the instances was experiencing >> a power outage it should automatically resolve to an instance that >> works. >> >> If so, where can I find documentation about how to do this? > > This really should be the role of SRV records [0], but you'd need to ask > http clients to look out for a _http._tcp record. In the meanwhile, the > standard solution is a frontend proxy like HAProxy. > > [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record > > -- > Matthieu Rakotojaona
