High Avalaibility with Apache on Windows Systems

Hi
I'm new in this group. I'm introducing myself with a topic a bit
complicated ... ;-)
I'm trying to realize a cluster of servers based on Windows 2003
server System.
I'm using Apache HTTP Server 2.2 as load balancing web server and I
whould like to perform the high availability to avoid that it whoud
become a "single point of failure".

Does anybody know if it is possible to perform high avaliability
(maybe usying "heartbeat" technic) with Apache on servers based on
Windows Systems?

I have found only articles speaking about that for servers based on
linux systems.

Thx to everyone.

jodeva77

Re: High Avalaibility with Apache on Windows Systems

jodeva77 schrieb:
> Hi
> I'm new in this group. I'm introducing myself with a topic a bit
> complicated ... ;-)
> I'm trying to realize a cluster of servers based on Windows 2003
> server System.
> I'm using Apache HTTP Server 2.2 as load balancing web server and I
> whould like to perform the high availability to avoid that it whoud
> become a "single point of failure".
>
> Does anybody know if it is possible to perform high avaliability
> (maybe usying "heartbeat" technic) with Apache on servers based on
> Windows Systems?

Tivoli System Automation exists also for Windows (its like heartbeat,
but with more features.

> I have found only articles speaking about that for servers based on
> linux systems.

There exists also hardware for this, some of them have also embedded
Linux on it. But at the end, I would suggest that you replace Windows
2003 Server with Linux or Solaris.

--
Regards,
Trinity Of Matrix
E-Mail (only for spammer): trinity.matrix@localhost.localdomain

Re: High Avalaibility with Apache on Windows Systems

On 13 Set, 13:33, Trinity Of Matrix
wrote:
> jodeva77 schrieb:
>
> > Hi
> > I'm new in this group. I'm introducing myself with a topic a bit
> > complicated ... ;-)
> > I'm trying to realize a cluster of servers based on Windows 2003
> > server System.
> > I'm using Apache HTTP Server 2.2 as load balancing web server and I
> > whould like to perform the high availability to avoid that it whoud
> > become a "single point of failure".
>
> > Does anybody know if it is possible to perform high avaliability
> > (maybe usying "heartbeat" technic) with Apache on servers based on
> > Windows Systems?
>
> Tivoli System Automation exists also for Windows (its like heartbeat,
> but with more features.
>
> > I have found only articles speaking about that for servers based on
> > linux systems.
>
> There exists also hardware for this, some of them have also embedded
> Linux on it. But at the end, I would suggest that you replace Windows
> 2003 Server with Linux or Solaris.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Trinity Of Matrix
> E-Mail (only for spammer): trinity.mat...@localhost.localdomain

Thx Trinity

I will follow your advice I will use linux based servers.

I have found a good explanation about how to do that:

http://www.howtoforge.com/high_availability_loadbalanced_apa che_cluster

.... in that it is raccomanded to create 4 nodes on Debian Sarge
systems:

2 nodes for Apache and 2 for making load balance.

Then the high avaliability will be done by installing Ultra Monkey
(Open Source).

Do you think that I can trust in that articol using Debian Sarge or
can you advice me a more completed one?

Thx

jodeva77

Re: High Avalaibility with Apache on Windows Systems

On 13 Set, 13:33, Trinity Of Matrix
wrote:
> jodeva77 schrieb:
>
> > Hi
> > I'm new in this group. I'm introducing myself with a topic a bit
> > complicated ... ;-)
> > I'm trying to realize a cluster of servers based on Windows 2003
> > server System.
> > I'm using Apache HTTP Server 2.2 as load balancing web server and I
> > whould like to perform the high availability to avoid that it whoud
> > become a "single point of failure".
>
> > Does anybody know if it is possible to perform high avaliability
> > (maybe usying "heartbeat" technic) with Apache on servers based on
> > Windows Systems?
>
> Tivoli System Automation exists also for Windows (its like heartbeat,
> but with more features.
>
> > I have found only articles speaking about that for servers based on
> > linux systems.
>
> There exists also hardware for this, some of them have also embedded
> Linux on it. But at the end, I would suggest that you replace Windows
> 2003 Server with Linux or Solaris.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Trinity Of Matrix
> E-Mail (only for spammer): trinity.mat...@localhost.localdomain

Thx Trinity

I will follow your advice I will use linux based servers.


I have found a good explanation about how to do that:


http://www.howtoforge.com/high_availability_loadbalanced_apa che_cluster


.... in that it is raccomanded to create 4 nodes on Debian Sarge
systems:


2 nodes for Apache and 2 for making load balance.


Then the high avaliability will be done by installing Ultra Monkey
(Open Source).


Do you think that I can trust in that article using Debian Sarge or
can you advice me a more completed one?


Thx


jodeva77

Re: High Avalaibility with Apache on Windows Systems

There is no such thing as "high availability on a Windows system".

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