Re: [webmin-l] My Plan

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Hi Ryan

the other problem to consider with your proposed set-up is how your 
customers will collect their e-mail if it's on the back-up server

i.e. if main server is down for an hour and all e-mails go to back-up server

how do customers collect e-mails - as they will probably only be using 1 pop 
account and outlook express which will be looking to collect from 
mail.domain.tld

both servers will have a mail.domain.tld - but the customers mail software 
will only look at the "live" server

i've got a set-up where e-mails are queued on the back-up server until the 
main server goes live again
then the main server accepts the back-up server's mail queue

this obviously means that the customer can't get any new e-mails whilst the 
main server is down - but none should bounce back either

SSL domains with their own IP numbers need a way of accepting the back-up 
server's extra IP numbers as well

virtulamin does most things - but i've not seen how it can do the above

i paid a lot for a customised failover system as i'm not a techie
but it does what i require
if you want the details of the company i use let me know

Regards

Martyn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN" <lu...@co...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 2:30 PM
Subject: [webmin-l] My Plan


> Here is my rough plan I have two servers in different remote locations 
> both running virtualmin.  What i would like to do is have complete 
> redundancy on both and use some sort of round robin dns to take over if 
> one site goes down.  Seems like virtualmin has all the tools but it is 
> also very new to me.  I already have things setup on one server the way i 
> liked before installing webmin lets call it master.
>
> Phase one is give control of all existing virtual sites to webmin on 
> master sever.
>
> During the import process webmin seems to always want to set the ipaddress 
> this is not portable enough for me.  Also i am have some ip issues with my 
> isp right now and need to be able to change in the future.
>
> Ideally I wish virtualmin to be able to use the *:80 setting for all 
> virtual server but it keep using an ip address.  How do i achieve this.
>
>
>
> unfinished____
>
> Backup/move all virtual servers once per day to the slave.
>
> clash as user already exists?
>
> Edit dns records to use some sort of round robin.
>
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