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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Tony Stocker <ak...@gmail.com> on 2006/04/26 23:38:01 UTC
[users@httpd] Is there a how-to for building an Apacher server farm?
Hello,
I've spent the better part of the afternoon Googling for a decent how-to on
how one goes about creating a web server farm. There are tons of documents
that refer to the concept as an accepted practice, but I can't find anything
that discusses how one goes about creating one. My basic goal is to create
a server farm that balances load among n servers, and creates fault
tolerance because as long as (n - (n-1) ) servers are up then my web site(s)
are available. This seems to be a basic concept and one that's been around
for a long time, but even in the Apache mailing list archives I can't find
anything applicable.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks muchly!
Tony
Re: [users@httpd] Is there a how-to for building an Apacher server farm?
Posted by dnk <ma...@backbonetechnology.com>.
I myself have not set one up, but from the casual reading it "seems"
fairly straight forward.
Multiple apache machines with the web content in sync... then setup
round robin dns.
There might be (and probably is) more involved, but it might be a start?
Dustin
On 26-Apr-06, at 2:38 PM, Tony Stocker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've spent the better part of the afternoon Googling for a decent
> how-to on how one goes about creating a web server farm. There are
> tons of documents that refer to the concept as an accepted
> practice, but I can't find anything that discusses how one goes
> about creating one. My basic goal is to create a server farm that
> balances load among n servers, and creates fault tolerance because
> as long as (n - (n-1) ) servers are up then my web site(s) are
> available. This seems to be a basic concept and one that's been
> around for a long time, but even in the Apache mailing list
> archives I can't find anything applicable.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks muchly!
>
> Tony
[users@httpd] Re: Is there a how-to for building an Apacher server farm?
Posted by Tony Stocker <ak...@gmail.com>.
All,
Thanks to Richard, Victor and Dustin for the pointers. I'm going to check
out load balancers and the round-robin DNS aspects. Probably be back with
more specific Apache questions in the future! Thanks for the help!
Tony
On 4/26/06, Tony Stocker <ak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've spent the better part of the afternoon Googling for a decent how-to
> on how one goes about creating a web server farm. There are tons of
> documents that refer to the concept as an accepted practice, but I can't
> find anything that discusses how one goes about creating one. My basic goal
> is to create a server farm that balances load among n servers, and creates
> fault tolerance because as long as (n - (n-1) ) servers are up then my web
> site(s) are available. This seems to be a basic concept and one that's been
> around for a long time, but even in the Apache mailing list archives I can't
> find anything applicable.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks muchly!
>
> Tony
>
Re: [users@httpd] Is there a how-to for building an Apacher server farm?
Posted by Victor Trac <vi...@gmail.com>.
Another alternative to the hardware load balancer is to build a Linux
Virtual Server - http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/. Linux Enterprise
Cluster<http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=clemsontalkco-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1593270364&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr>is
a good book, guiding you how to build this from scratch.
-Victor
On 4/27/06, Richard de Vries <ri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> At work I've built several webserver farms. You will
> need to configure multiple apache webservers, and put
> a loadbalancer in front of it. Either a hardware based
> loadbalancer,or software-based loadbalancer such as
> PLB. If you want multiple levels of redundancy, you
> can configure a load-balanced loadbalancer
> environment.
>
> Your DNS would resolve to your loadbalancer, which
> would in turn distribute the load over your various
> webservers. This loadbalancer should in turn monitor
> your apache instances and take an instance out of it's
> "available webservers" table if it goes down.
>
> Feel free to email me individually if you require more
> information.
>
> R
> --- Tony Stocker <ak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've spent the better part of the afternoon Googling
> > for a decent how-to on
> > how one goes about creating a web server farm.
> > There are tons of documents
> > that refer to the concept as an accepted practice,
> > but I can't find anything
> > that discusses how one goes about creating one. My
> > basic goal is to create
> > a server farm that balances load among n servers,
> > and creates fault
> > tolerance because as long as (n - (n-1) ) servers
> > are up then my web site(s)
> > are available. This seems to be a basic concept and
> > one that's been around
> > for a long time, but even in the Apache mailing list
> > archives I can't find
> > anything applicable.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks muchly!
> >
> > Tony
> >
>
>
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Re: [users@httpd] Is there a how-to for building an Apacher server farm?
Posted by Richard de Vries <ri...@yahoo.com>.
At work I've built several webserver farms. You will
need to configure multiple apache webservers, and put
a loadbalancer in front of it. Either a hardware based
loadbalancer,or software-based loadbalancer such as
PLB. If you want multiple levels of redundancy, you
can configure a load-balanced loadbalancer
environment.
Your DNS would resolve to your loadbalancer, which
would in turn distribute the load over your various
webservers. This loadbalancer should in turn monitor
your apache instances and take an instance out of it's
"available webservers" table if it goes down.
Feel free to email me individually if you require more
information.
R
--- Tony Stocker <ak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've spent the better part of the afternoon Googling
> for a decent how-to on
> how one goes about creating a web server farm.
> There are tons of documents
> that refer to the concept as an accepted practice,
> but I can't find anything
> that discusses how one goes about creating one. My
> basic goal is to create
> a server farm that balances load among n servers,
> and creates fault
> tolerance because as long as (n - (n-1) ) servers
> are up then my web site(s)
> are available. This seems to be a basic concept and
> one that's been around
> for a long time, but even in the Apache mailing list
> archives I can't find
> anything applicable.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks muchly!
>
> Tony
>
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