Re: Securing web site with redundancy ?

From: Ivan Krstic (krstic@fas.harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 19:02:01 EDT


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. The same thing which is already available
> for firewalls (high disponibility), but with web servers.

With Linux, there is http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org. FreeBSD used to
offer an application in ports called 'vrrpd' to do something similar, if
I recall correctly.

Cheers,
Ivan.

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