Re: [cobalt-users] Load Balancing Solutions for Raq4i

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 26 July 2002 07:11 pm, Todd Malony wrote:
> Hi,
> I have 2 Raq4i's and want to do load balancing between them.  I'm not very
> skilled with my raq, and was wondering if there are any step-by-step or
> how-to's in setting up load balancing?  I basically want it to just
> randomly send half the visitors to one server and the other half to the
> other.

You should have a minimum of three systems one as a router, performing NAT, 
masquerading and running the load balancing algoritim

Read up on the eddie project   - load balancing -
http://eddie.sourceforge.net/

> Also are there any ways/programs so that when I update the site on one
> server, the same site on the other server will automatically get the
> updated content, so I wouldn't have to upload to both servers everytime I
> updated my site?
>

Use rsync.
http://rsync.samba.org

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