It sounds so easy, doesn't it? Recompile kernel, tweak Apache and play around with ospf. the problem is most techies never write down changes that they make and if he finds another job or gets hit by a bus, they are screwed! Shoot that consultant anyway, sounds like he deserves it.
HellishCisco? could you be any more vague?
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First of all, you have to tell us more about your existing Cisco infrastructure. Since you have already invested a lot of $ into cisco hw, you may want to consider buying Cisco Local Director box to handle your load balancing and port monitoring. Your DNS will point to a virtual IP address on LD and LD will point to real IPs of your web farm. It can be configured to monitor port(s), 80 for example, and make server OOS (out of service) if server doesnt reply to LD's request on that port. You can also telnet to LD and make any server OOS in case you need to bring it down for repairs, application upgrades or beta code testing. Cisco also make a Distributed Director that works with Local Director but you may not need it. There's a better product from F5 that does everything and more but it costs a lot more. Both devices work with the rest of the network and do NOT require any software to be loaded on your Linux and NT boxes.
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It sounds so easy, doesn't it? Recompile kernel, tweak Apache and play around with ospf. the problem is most techies never write down changes that they make and if he finds another job or gets hit by a bus, they are screwed! Shoot that consultant anyway, sounds like he deserves it.
First of all, you have to tell us more about your existing Cisco infrastructure. Since you have already invested a lot of $ into cisco hw, you may want to consider buying Cisco Local Director box to handle your load balancing and port monitoring. Your DNS will point to a virtual IP address on LD and LD will point to real IPs of your web farm. It can be configured to monitor port(s), 80 for example, and make server OOS (out of service) if server doesnt reply to LD's request on that port. You can also telnet to LD and make any server OOS in case you need to bring it down for repairs, application upgrades or beta code testing. Cisco also make a Distributed Director that works with Local Director but you may not need it. There's a better product from F5 that does everything and more but it costs a lot more. Both devices work with the rest of the network and do NOT require any software to be loaded on your Linux and NT boxes.
Register.com is not bad but I use networksolutions For FREE web hosting and domain parking, go to http://www.neotek.cc They have a Linux boxes and NT w/ FP2000 extensions. You can't beat free :)