load balancing and fault tolerance without load balancer

Fri Mar 14 16:49:10 UTC 2008



    You might want to consider client side load balancing --

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/client_side_load_balancing/


Joe Shen wrote:
> hi,
>
>    we plan to set up a web site with two web servers.
>
>    The two servers should be under the same domain
> name.  Normally,  web surfing load should be
> distributed between the servers. when one server
> fails, the other server should take all of load
> automatically. When fault sever recovers, load
> balancing should be achived automatically.There is no
> buget for load balancer.
>
>
>    we plan to use DNS to balance load between the two
> servers. But, it seems DNS based solution could not
> direct all load to one server automatically when the
> other is down.
>  
>
>    Is there any way to solve problem above? 
>
>    we use HP-UX with MC-Service Guard installed. 
>
>
>   thanks in advance.
>
> Joe
>
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