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On 10/15/99 at 11:38 AM, paul@netro42.com (Paul Willis) wrote:
Re: Load Balancing Question
From: Kirk Samuelson
Date: Monday, October 18, 1999
Time: 8:49:00 pm
> >
> >I think you're right, Paul. I'm almost certain of it. But it's
> >becoming a moot point because I've had nothing but trouble with the
> >QDNS Load Balancing plug-in (Starnine's product - not Men & Mice from
> >what I understand). Too bad.
> >
> >Do you use it, BTW? Anyone using it without increased crashing with
> >WebSTAR 4.x?
> >
>
> You are right it is a Starnine product (although Men & Mice must be
> involved somehow even if only to licence the QDNS name).
>
> We had been using it fine under 3.0.2 but had trouble with the v4
> plug-in when we upgraded, it was causing our 2 servers to go deaf to
> incoming requests although everything was running 'fine' on the
> machines, MacCoach didn't think anything was up.
>
> We removed the QDNS plug-in (after testing by a guy named Thomas
> Wedderburn-Bisshop on the Web* list proved what it was) and had just
> been using QDNS's round robin load sharing until recently when version
> 4.1b3 was released, so far it seems to be working although we did have
> a few nervous days watching the servers closely.
>
> BTW why do you want your secondary webserver only to come into play
> when the primary is down? You will have to keep it up to date so it
> has a current version of your site etc. so why not use it to take some
> load from your first webserver. Even if it's not a very powerful
> machine, load balancing should make sure its not overloaded.
>
I might try it again. I have a handful of outside users who will be
FTPing files to my server. I haven't found a reasonable way of keeping
the two servers in sync on the fly. I can run Retrospect once an hour
but that's the closest I can come. If there's a better way please share!
I guess I can give my users a direct IP address for testing newly
uploaded sites...
Thanks very much for your feedback.
-Kirk
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