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There is no such thing as multiple redundancy with no single point of failure for point-to-point communcations accross the Internet. The best you can hope for is no single point of failure up to your ISP or your router to your ISP.
You can buy multiple Internet connections through different ISPs, but you will still need to have different network addresses for your site in the DNS, and when one of your ISPs goes down, everyone on the Internet who has cached the IP provided by that ISP gets cut off.
I'll grant you the second redundant ServerIron, but the main point is that the bozo Dogbert consultant from the original poster is trying to get network layer redundancy from the operating system instead of the routing infrastructure. And then he slams Linux because he's not getting the job done.
-- King of the Luddites
P.S. Yes, I realize that it is possible to have alternate routes to the same IP address in the routing tables, but try getting two different ISPs to agree to do it for you.
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Why put an operating system in where a smart router switch will do? ServerIron from Foundry Networks kicks ass. See my dogbert comment.
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Your consultant obviously owns CISCO and SUN stock. For Linux webserver failover on N boxes all you need is:
N Linux webservers 1 ServerIron switch from Foundry Networks (http://www.foundrynetworks.com)
You put the N linux servers behind the switch, each with their own IP, and give ONE ip to the switch. Tell the world to use the one ip on the switch, and the switch can be set up to automatically fail-over OR load balance your web servers.
As the one of the founding fathers of the Free Software Movement, your work has had, and continues to have direct impact on the improvement of the software tools and technology freely available to the world at large. Do you ever stop to consider whether or not this is a GoodThing(TM)?? More specifically, what is your perspective on the Unabomber's "New Luddite Challenge" which claims that progress of information technology will ultimately lead to the extinction of our species (worst case), or at best reduce the masses of humanity to the status of domestic pets dependent on the whims of the technocratic elite? How do you view your personal goals and technological efforts in this context??
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You can buy multiple Internet connections through different ISPs, but you will still need to have different network addresses for your site in the DNS, and when one of your ISPs goes down, everyone on the Internet who has cached the IP provided by that ISP gets cut off.
I'll grant you the second redundant ServerIron, but the main point is that the bozo Dogbert consultant from the original poster is trying to get network layer redundancy from the operating system instead of the routing infrastructure. And then he slams Linux because he's not getting the job done.
-- King of the Luddites
P.S. Yes, I realize that it is possible to have alternate routes to the same IP address in the routing tables, but try getting two different ISPs to agree to do it for you.
Why put an operating system in where a smart router switch will do? ServerIron from Foundry Networks kicks ass. See my dogbert comment.
Your consultant obviously owns CISCO and SUN stock. For Linux webserver failover on N boxes
all you need is:
N Linux webservers
1 ServerIron switch from Foundry Networks (http://www.foundrynetworks.com)
You put the N linux servers behind the switch, each with their own IP, and give ONE ip to the switch. Tell the world to use the one ip on the switch, and the switch can be set up to automatically fail-over OR load balance your web servers.
-- King of the Luddites
-- King of the Luddites