[Linux-HA] ('Lil bit off-topic) HA using round-robin -- working!

[Robert Heinzmann]

One more thing regarding the "complex HA solutions",

in the HA solution you only need to protect / switch the floating IP 
addresses if you manage to synchronize the data in a different manner 
(rsync) and watch apache by means of cron, monit etc.

Robert

Robert Heinzmann schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> why not really USE the hot standby ?
>
> Just configure 2 resource groups, each protected by an HA solution. So 
> you have 2 Apache running, each one using a floating IP address. In 
> DNS you configure both of them with A records for the same domain (as 
> you already did). Now both machines "do something" and in case one 
> machine fails, the other one hosts both apache servers.
>
> Is'nt this better ?
>
> If the machines differ in computing power, you can also you more A 
> record, according to the capabilities of the servers. Lets say Server 
> A is 2 times faster than 2, you can configure this in DNS:
>
> 1.1.1.1 www.domain.com
> 1.1.1.1 www.domain.com
> 1.1.1.2 www.domain.com
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
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