On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:35:59AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > I'm wondering if Debian has the resources (DSA, local admins and
> > hardware) to have a hot-swappable backup machine for ftpmaster, since
> > it does go down occasionally and when it does the downtime is fairly
> > disruptive to Debian.
>
> Well, this would mean:
[...]
> c) Run it with heartbeat, drbd and all that.
>
> Point c) is actually easy enough, even though im not DSA and can't decide
> for them to do it. But technically it would be a working setup, provided
> b) works out, as you really want a *FAST* connection between the
> two. Which means local.
What is it that ftp-master does that can only run on one computer at a time? If
most of the services it provides could be distributed, you could spread the load to
multiple machines, and get redundancy at the same time.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
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