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Trick: High-availability web server |
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Sunday, 31 October 2004 |
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Using any software product in a business-critical or mission-critical environment requires that you consider availability, a measure of the ability of a system to do what it is supposed to do, even in the presence of crashes, equipment failures, and environmental mishaps. As more and more critical commercial applications move onto the Internet, providing highly available services becomes increasingly important.
This article highlights implementation issues that you may encounter when implementing HA solutions. We'll review HA concepts, available HA software, hardware to use, and installation and configuration details about heartbeat (open source HA software for Linux) -- and we'll see how a Web server can be made highly available using heartbeat. Read more at IBM.com |
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