[Tclhttpd-users] load sharing

[Steve B. <st...@pr...>]

Does anyone have experience of, or pointers to material relevant to,
load sharing amongst multiple instances of tclhttpd?

I want to create a robust redundant group of servers, probably
distributed across sites and IP address space (and hence routes).
The ultimate would be for this to be transparent to the user, so that,
for instance, www.mystuff.com in fact takes the user to one of several
different (but functionally identical) sites, but is not itself an
actual machine that could fail for any reason.   I do realise this is
probably asking for the moon, and I do know how robust tclhttpd is in
practice.   But customers (in suits) don't.

A lot of what we do already (which uses our own thin client rather
than a browser) implements a fall-through list of servers, but I'm
wondering whether there is a way of presenting a single server name to
a browser-based user without creating a single mode of failure.