[lug] Load-balancing web servers

[Matt Clauson]

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On Friday 10 January 2003 11:51, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> Is there a way to keep the files synchronized in near-real-time, so
> the load balancing works seamlessly?  I know I could have a third
> server that's, say, NFS-mounted by the two web servers, but then I
> have a single point of failure-- which is the very thing I'm trying
> to avoid. I looked at a package called DRBD a while back; it's a
> "network RAID" system but was beta code and I had some problems with
> it.  And I don't think rsync-ing every 10 seconds is a viable
> solution, either...

You'll have to write your own wrapper to call rsync, but you can 
probably get something quick and dirty using the FAM package...

http://freshmeat.net/projects/fam/

Several applications in the KDE tree use it.  Good stuff.

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