Re: Securing web site with redundancy ?

From: John Kinsella (jlk@thrashyour.com)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 18:30:34 EDT


On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:09:56PM +0100, Bénoni MARTIN wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a way to set up 2 "redundant" web servers (identical web sites), i.e. when one crashes, the other one takes the connection over. The same thing which is already available for firewalls (high disponibility), but with web servers.
>
> We would have 2 Windozes in a DMZ with IIS as the web server, and a pix firewall between the dmz and Internet. Is there any tool allowing this out there ? I tried to google quite a while, but without any chance...
>
> Some one has an idea ?

Benoni - it's a pretty common feature for hardware load balancers. Not
sure if any of the software load balancers do it, then again I'm not a
huge fan of sw load balancers...

John

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