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<p>On Wednesday 18 April 2007 00:16:24 Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:</p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> Ferguson, Michael wrote:</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#007000">> > OK.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#007000">> > Have a standby box prepared and ready, shutdown and waiting.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#007000">> > If the primary goes down, your users will call you. Go in and simply swap</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#007000">> > it out. No?</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#008000">> There in lies the problem: they won't call to tell me it's down.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> They'll just sit there and complain or wonder and wait till *I* come in</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> to figure it out. And let's say they do call...do you honestly think</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> I'm going to wake up at 4 in the morning, drive down to the building to</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> swap a machine? Would you? :)</span></p>
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<p>Again, Keepalive+LVS will provide you an HA enviroment so you will be able to go to bed without any worries :-)</p>
<p>That's what I did some days ago with an apache cluster I was required to set up.</p>
<p>If one of the apaches fails, the other one will server all the connections.</p>
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<p>-- </p>
<p>Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.</p>
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