[lug] [O/T]Web Server Fault Tolerance Devices

[Alan Robertson]

George Sexton wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know who manufactures "director" devices. That is devices that
> take http requests for a specific address and routes them to multiple
> possible web servers? I am really interested in a hardware level device
> rather than a clustering approach. Any leads would be appreciated...

I'm told that Coyote Point makes a good box.

LVS is the Linux Virtual Server project, which does the same thing using
Linux.  It is very well respected, and widely used.

Please note:  All approaches are hardware approaches.  They involve
dedicated boxes to do the job.  They're all PCs repackaged in one form or
another.

They're all software.  They are all basically unix-clone OSes to do the job.

You can buy support for any of them.

They're all clustering devices.  The direct traffic to a back end cluster of
machines which may run the same OS, or a different one.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at suse.com