We are planning for a clustering archirecture for our mail servers,The basic idea is put all of mailservers behind a load balancer which will monitor and distribute the n/w load as server load and forward the requests accordingly can u suggest any good hardware loadbalancer which could give us 'server load balancing' as well as n/w load balacing.
I would also like to know if it is a good idea to go for a software load balancer(like linux heartbeat) or to h/w load balancer.
Anyone know of a good load balancer for Linux that is able to not only distribute load evenly amongst many servers, but one that's able to allocate servers based on the resource?
For instance:
I want www.mysite.com/dogs to be load-balanced between servers A, B, and C. I want www.mysite.com/cats to be load-balanced between servers X, Y, and C.
Something with a failover load balancer that you can assign a static IP address to and it'll sit in front of a number of lowend virtual private servers.
I have two servers that I run in Los Angeles (used to host gaming servers for a small community I run) for personal use that seem to be a little jumpy with server performance.
Would a load balancer help with this situation?
And for the n00b question, what exactly is a load balancer.
Very new to hosting servers, so I appreciate a gentle response
Do I need 3 LB to do this or I can do it with only one? The screenshot of Barracuda LB seem to show many "virtual LB", so I guest it's a yes?
2) So... it's service only?
On the Barracuda and some page, they are talking about "service" and not "server" LB. Can I LB a whole serveur ? Like all service from an IP xxx.xxx.xxx.234 to a server ? Or I can only do "HTTP -> SRV1" "DNS -> SRV1"? If no, what happen to service that the LB didn't know (like cPanel)?
3) An Internal Network? what About cPanel?
According to my search, LB are working like this:
EXTERNAL IP of SERVICE (xxx.xxx.xxx.200) -> INTERNAL IP SERVER 1(10.0.0.25), INTERNAL IP SERVER 2 (10.0.0.26)
So, I need to configure the server with an Internal IP cause else, it will conflit on the "local network". The probleme is, cPanel will be using the "Internal IP" to make all of his configuration... so if a user add a new website, he will configure it with 10.0.0.25, this won't since the external IP will be xxx.xxx.xxx.200 and Apache won't anwser to this virtual host. What can I do?
Can I do this ? (same internal IP as the external?) EXTERNAL IP (70.234.125.123) -> SERVER 1 INTERNAL IP (70.234.125.123), SERVER 2 INTERNAL IP (10.0.0.26)
If yes, I will configure the second serveur without cPanel and only sync the configuration and files. So in case of "crash" of the server 1, cPanel won't be working, but website won't be down...
traffic has been surging lately and is expected to continue surging. i am already on the fastest chipset my webhost has.
current configuration single server (centos), webserver (apache), single filesystem. many dynamic pages (perl script) but no mysql database. no php.
ideal configuration multiple webservers (apache), single file system.
assuming my scripts do not write to the filesystem (read only), what do i need to install or do in order to send a request for www.domain.com to server1.domain.com or server2.domain.com or server3.domain.com according to the load of each? it should look the same at the front end. anyone know what i need to get?
if it is possible to hide the Barracuda Load Balancer signature in headers ?
If you check here : [url]
or do a telnet 80 to that same FQDN and send "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" + "RETURN" you will be able to see in the headers the server signature (BarracudaHTTP 1.00).
I'm trying to find a solution but without any result so far,
This is the story: We have too server in Israel, in one server we have: Win 2003 STR that use for IIS (IBM RAID 5) And in the second we have: Win 2003 STR + SQL SERVER 2005 workgroup.
After 1 year running in Israel we like to go out to the world with our products.
This is what I think we need to do but we still don't figure how to that:
1. Still use the same server in Israel.
2. Buy more server outside Israel, Lets say UK and set a Load Balancer between the server in UK to Israel (both IIS and SQL).
3. In the Load balancer we like to set that if the user come from europe you will go to the server in UK and if he come from Israel you go the server there.
4. If one of the server we be go down all the the users will sends to the server outside there country.
5. In the future we like to add more server in the world on the same setting.
What do you say? how can I do something like that?
Anyone know of a hardware load balancer that can load balance my apache and mysql using one device? I mean right now I can use the ultra monkey for the load balancer the cluster mysql. But I want to go hardware.
I was thinking of F5 BIGIP? will that work? anyone know Please give me some choices..
I have a setup where Apache connects to a F5 load balancer which in turn balances between two jboss app servers.
Apache using mod_proxy -> F5 (hardware load balancer) -> 2 jboss application server
It uses jsessionid. I sometimes get 500 errors for the post methods. I think the request goes to the incorrect jboss server because of the F5 load balancer. Everything works just right when I shutdown one of the jboss app servers.
I am using single Apache HTTP Server (2.2.23) as a Load Balancer with two IBM Websphere application server nodes (other machines). I have deployed the simple text based helloWorld application and it works fine with load balancer. But When I deploy the real application that contains images,css file , java script file. It loads the page without images and show me simple text and gives me the following Exception on error_logs and similar kind of exceptions
[error] [client 192.217.71.77] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/application, referer: http://192.168.141.17/application/faces/test.jsp
Interestingly, when I access the application without load balancer, it also works fine.
A little bit excited as the Barracuda is coming soon...
We have 1 forum server, and it's being access internally by all the classrooms, students, teachers, etc. How should I approach this setup? The current hostname for the forum machine is forum... how should I setup the cluster? forum2?
I'm using mod_proxy_balancer in Apache 2.2.29 with OpenSSL on Windows to distribute HTTPS requests to two other back end servers, both of which are also Apache 2.2.29 with OpenSSL on Windows.
DumpIO shows that the requests are being decrypted on the balancer, and then sent unencrypted to the two workers. I would like to have the requests pass through the balancer without decrypting there, and let the two back end worker servers do the decryption. Is that possible? If so, how?
When I tried simply disabling SSL on the balancer, the requests fail, with nothing logged at all.
Is there a way in shell, to find out information on the CPU(s) in the server? I'm using Centos, on a cPanel server. However, I'm looking for more info than what WHM's "Server Information" provides.
Trying to find out what generation Xeon is in the server, so I can read about it's specs.
How do you get like for example ROOT of cPanel in a VPS? How would you be able to use it besides like giving permission to use WHM and stuff on accounts. As doesn't remote reboot and such have to happen on the whole server?
I am moving my servers this week and my new host doesn't do domain hosting. This is my first time doing it, I need help in pointing my domain to the new server. I just need the basic settings for A, CNAME and MX records.
I understand that servers can do automatic backups of information, yet I also see forum modifications that enable simple ways of doing a backup. Are there different types of backups? Why is it necessary to manually backup a forum database when its done automatically by the server? In terms of assuring the data, what is required and whats a typical procedure, what does it entail, is it manual and if so usually how often, or is it usually automatic?
Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz Processor #2 speed: 2660.000 MHz Processor #2 cache size: 4096 KB Why is the Processor #1 speed labeled as 1.6 ghz? Processor #2 speed never goes down no matter how high the load is. Could it be the reason that my server can't handle 4 websites with a cumulative total of 20k unique hits per day?
