On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:10 AM, Tim Edwards wrote:
> We currently have a backup site at a different location to our main
> site. This backup site mirrors (as closely as possible) our main
> services, particularly web serving. Is there a way to have the
> backup site act as a failover for the main site using something
> like Linux-HA? They are on seperate internet connections with
> different IP ranges.
take a look at Super Sparrow, which i believe does what you're trying
to do:
http://www.supersparrow.org/
i haven't seen it widely deployed, but i have seen it occasionally in
production. here's a paper on how it works:
http://www.supersparrow.org/ss_paper/index.html
-steve
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