[Wylug-help] [Wylug-discuss] HA webserver

[John R. Hudson]

Have a look at this thread:

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/owncloud/2012-June/003918.html

John
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On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 08:46 +0100, sh2515+linux wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to read this, sorry if you get multiple 
> e-mails I can't recall which groups I have access to. I am wanting to 
> know how to implement a High Availability Owncloud for a charity I am 
> involved with, who would benefit greatly from Owncloud.
> 
> I am currently trying to implement IT services for "the well project" - 
> http://www.thewellproject.org.uk/ - in Normanton, West Yorkshire, a 
> charity setup by Normanton All Saints Parish Church.  The well project 
> helps children in a deprived area of Normanton, where anti social 
> behaviour is high, by giving them activities and out of school education 
> to curtail anti social behaviour and try and put them on the right track 
> for life.  I have obtained some old servers from the a member of the 
> local Linux User Group (LUG) and I am in the process of setting up a 
> proxy server - due to the surfeit of unwanted websites and videos 
> children watch (2girls and a cup mostly) who bypass the standard windows 
> parental control - and want to implement Owncloud for the users of the 
> well project.  Part of this is to allow children to use our IT for 
> homework etc but be able to access the work from home and school.  This 
> is why I want to implement Owncloud but in a High Availability/failover 
> (primary/secondary) cluster, as I have a full time job and would only be 
> able to fix issues when I have finished work. Unfortunately we are 
> unable to purchase the enterprise edition of owncloud, which includes 
> HA, however, I am willing to put in the work necessary to set this 
> facility up for the well project (I am not an IT expert, but have good 
> Linux knowledge) but just need to know what partitions are needed on a 
> DRBD, Heartbeat cluster for an Owncloud failover to be functional - 
> alternative ideas welcome. Any help to point me in the right direction 
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I e-mailed Owncloud and they said it's a webserver, look up Wordpress 
> DRBD with mySQL, but couldn't find anything specific.
> 
> 2 servers as a proxy with owncloud in a primary secondary role.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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