On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:10 AM, Tim Edwards wrote:
We currently have a backup site at a different location to our main site. This backup site mirrors (as closely as possible) our main services, particularly web serving. Is there a way to have the backup site act as a failover for the main site using something like Linux-HA? They are on seperate internet connections with different IP ranges.
take a look at Super Sparrow, which i believe does what you're trying to do:
i haven't seen it widely deployed, but i have seen it occasionally in production. here's a paper on how it works:
http://www.supersparrow.org/ss_paper/index.html
-steve
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