Re: Hardware failover webserver cluster

2014-03-28 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:29:23AM +0100, basti wrote: > SRV1 -> Node 1 > client -->|(shared IP) \/ > | /\ > SRV2 -> Node 2 > : > Node n > > Can

Re: Hardware failover webserver cluster

2014-03-28 Thread basti
Denis thanks for your "nutshell explanation" I will try the following: SRV1 -> Node 1 client -->|(shared IP) \/ | /\ SRV2 -> Node 2 : Node n SRV

Re: Hardware failover webserver cluster

2014-03-27 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 27/03/2014 18:21, Denis Witt a écrit : On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:47:15 +0100 basti wrote: perhaps that's a bit off topic here but can someone explain what I need to build a hardware failover nginx cluster? I a nutshell: * (at least) two Servers * a monitoring software * a shared IP

Re: Hardware failover webserver cluster

2014-03-27 Thread Denis Witt
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:47:15 +0100 basti wrote: > perhaps that's a bit off topic here but can someone explain what I > need to build a hardware failover nginx cluster? I a nutshell: * (at least) two Servers * a monitoring software * a shared IP * something that will switch the shared IP

Re: Hardware failover webserver cluster

2014-03-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 04:47:15PM +0100, basti wrote: > Hello, > perhaps that's a bit off topic here but can someone explain what I need > to build a hardware failover nginx cluster? > > The unclear is: > How does the client know that the server 1 is down and use the other one? > DNS failover has

RE: Hardware failover webserver cluster

2014-03-27 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, > perhaps that's a bit off topic here but can someone explain what I need to > build a hardware failover nginx cluster? Nope, but define hardware. A loadbalancer does not care what OS you are running, it does care what service it needs to balance. So, would "a debian server running loadbala