[theforum] Results Discussion (was Re: Results (was Re: RFV:ServerMatrix Hosting for l.e.o))

Judah McAuley judah at wiredotter.com
Wed Jun 9 20:04:10 CDT 2004


William Anderson wrote:

> Dean Mah wrote:
> 
>> [two $49 box snippage]
>>
>> The thought was to do load balancing for DNS at the very least and
>> potentially with w.e.o.
> 
> 
> *sigh* you *don't* have backup DNS in the same place as your primary. 
> *Ever*.  How do you plan to manage load balancing for weo?  I have a 
> feeling that none of this is really being thought out, and that the two 
> box strategy is being approached because it can.
> 

With a place like server matrix (which has 6 major backbone connections) 
you can likely set it up so that each box is on a different network 
segment. If they are attached to different switches, on different vlans, 
then that is 99% of the seperation you'd get having the two boxes in 
seperate buildings. As for weo, you'll notice that a) I brought that up 
as a potential confounding factor and b) on the irc channel martin and I 
just went over load balancing/replication issues for Zope (should we 
choose to go that route). Considering that we don't even have a proposal 
for what a migrated weo CMS would run under, I don't think its 
unreasonable to propose load balancing/failover as a spec for a new weo 
setup. Do you?

So, yes, it has been thought out. Thanks :)

Judah



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