[ale] Fault Tolerance for WebServer

Transam bob at verysecurelinux.com
Wed Apr 30 17:10:51 EDT 2003


On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 08:31:05PM -0500, Jeb W. Barger wrote:

> I was doing some research into creating a fault tolerate apache
> webserver at work.  What I am trying to do, is keep the webserver up
> even when one of our internet connection goes south.  For example, have
> a webserver multihomed with two ISP's when one of the lines goes down,
> the people can still get to the website via the other internet
> connection.  First of all I'm I explaining this right ?  Second of all,
> anybody have a suggestions?

BGP is but one way to do this.  Also, in many cases, one can tolerate
lower bandwidth (in exchange for spending less $$) for the backup route.
Thus, the backup line could be partial T1, DSL, etc.


> Jeb

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