Re: [SLUG] Redundant Web Servers

["Chris D." <wazza@xxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Luke Burton wrote:
>On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 09:16  AM, Jon Biddell wrote:
>
>> 3. There must be NO DISCERNABLE INTERRUPTION TO SERVICE when one
>> fails. Doing a "shift-reload" in the browser is NOT an option. It
>> must be TOTALLY TRANSPARENT.

>A good compromise might be to have a 'forwarder' machine hosted on a 
>highly available, redundant network of your choosing. You make sure 
>that the logic in this thing is as simple as possible, so that there is 
>a minimised risk of it going wrong. You pay a few $$ to make sure that 
>it's on failover hardware, redundant net connections, etc.

Just a thought, maybe just an old Pentium box that does port forwarding.

- Chris
wazza@xxxxxxx