nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote ..

avi@myphonebook.co.in wrote:

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Is this the end of the road, for installing apache as a service with ONE public IP address??

You sure you have the right solution? Using RHCS for web serving seems really complicated, I would use a load balancer instead. Myself I have most experience with F5 gear but there is LVS on linux(never used it). With load balancers you can often offload things like SSL, compression, etc. It makes life much easier for scaling, since you can have multiple systems serving content for the same public IP, and add/remove more at will, really trivial to manage.

Depends on the size of your cluster..

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/browse/rh-cs-en/pt-lvs.html

nate

I have used LVS before. I wanted to use RHCS for an ISCSI-SAN setup, with GFS.

LVS can work with RHCS. Cannot afford F5's. Am in the process of trying out

RHCS with LVS. Otherwise I will fall back on LVS with Mysql replication across nodes.