[Phpwm] Load Balancing and redundancy

[Phil Beynon]

> Yes that's balance.
>
> Good article on it here:
>
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/07/27/1729229
>
> that makes it sound amazingly easy.
>
> The things I'm not sure about are:
>
> Redundancy - It can handle one of the web servers going down but what
> happens if the balance server goes down?
>
> Resources - I guess you need to have an exact copy of the site on each
> server which sounds like a headache. Linux Virtual Server
> utilizes a shared
> data store so gets around this.
>

If you have a spare nic port on each server you can back to back them and
keep them up to date with each other with rsync.

Phil