Re: [Tclhttpd-users] load sharing

[Edesio C. e S. <ede...@ie...>]

Maybe a simple DNS round robin? Server with multiples IP
address. Intelligent browsers should take care of failed servers and try
another IP.

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:57:47PM +0000, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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