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I have this same question as well. A good answer from Chris or
Re: Load Balancing - how to
From: Jeff Logan
Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Time: 5:50:22 pm
Sigfus will help.
Thanks,
Jeff Logan
>Hi there,
>
>We're running QuickDNS 3.5.3. It has many great features, but I can't
>believe there is nothing in the manual about Load Balancing (a quick mention
>of Round Robin Load Balancing, and even THAT was hard to find). Even after
>spending the best part of an hour and a half scouring through the talk list
>archives, I still only have half an idea of what to do...
>
>Isn't that a bit strange that there's a feature which can be accessed under
>'insert a record' but there's no explanation at all of what it is or how to
>use it?!?!?
>
>Now to the question:
>
>This is what I've tried. In the load balance window, I've entered the name
>of a host I want to balance, I've entered TTL 300, Interval 30, Hostlife 60.
>Under host address and preference, I've assumed that I put IP address and a
>number. Is the preference number a percentage, or just a number. If i put
>the 'primary' as 1000, and the other as '1', does this mean it will be
>accessed 1 out of every 1001 tries.
>
>In this case, what happens if the primary host is down (which is actually
>the reason we are trying this)?
>
>To explain further, our 'main' webserver hosts a number of sites which have
>complicated database interactions. If this server is down for a bit of
>maintenance, we would like all queries to be directed to backup webserver
>which could just say 'server down for maintenance yada yada'. And then when
>the primary is up again, all queries to go back to that.
>
>All assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>Tim
>--
>Tim Robinson
>IDFK Web Developments
>tim@idfk.com.au
>114a/40 Yeo Street
>Neutral Bay 2089
>Australia
>Phone +612 9908 2134
>Fax +612 9908 4837
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