Server Redundancy

Thu Aug 7 07:30:31 UTC 2003

    > The gated solution sounds interesting, but doesn't automatically have the
    > feedback loop of stopping advertising itself when apache stops responding,
    > but the box is still up (which is a fairly common occurence in our Apache2
    > testing).

Most folks tie Big Brother or Netsaint or just an expect script into the
loop, and withdraw the advertisement and sound an alarm when a service is
offline.

                                -Bill