[lug] [O/T]Web Server Fault Tolerance Devices
Alan Robertson
alanr at suse.com
Fri Sep 15 20:54:49 MDT 2000
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
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