On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 12:09, Bénoni MARTIN wrote:
I was wondering if there was a way to set up 2 "redundant"
web servers (identical web sites), i.e. when one crashes,
the other one takes the connection over.
You have both software-based and hardware-based options.
For a software-based and Microsoft-oriented solution, you might want to
take a look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/iis/deploy/confeat/webclust.mspx
or here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/clustering/winclstt.mspx
Or, depending on the traffic that your servers have to handle and on
your budget, you may want to buy a load balancer. Cisco, Foundry and
Radware (just to name a few) can provide you with a box to put in front
of your servers in order to manage the connections between them, both in
active/active and in active/passive configuration.
Hope this helps
Alberto Revelli
Northern Fortress, Inc.
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