Related to clustering

[James McDonald]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:26:02PM -0800, Swapana Ghosh wrote:
> Hi
> 
>       We are installing 3 new servers with redhat 9.0 - kernel-2.4.20-8..
> For *load balancing* (basically for web server) we are thinking of 
> *clustering*..
> 
>       I have never worked on *clustering*. I checked the *openMosix*..
> Heard about *Beauwolf*. At present this site is not available though.

If you are into load balancing then perhaps you need to use just Squid as a reverseProxy. Squid has a lot of HTTP Accelerator options that may give you the same result...

For load balancing using clustering you will need the machines in active/active.configuration.

Linux Journal and Linux Magazine have had some really good articles on clustering which may help
 
> 
>       As we want to go for free softwares.. So can any one suggest/advice
> me out of these two - which one i can choose for installation/configuration
> of clustering?.. Though i did not get the opportunity to check the 
> *Beauwolf* site.. Is *Beauwolf* is a /FREE/ software? 
> 
>       If anybody has any other idea for clustering softwares can suggest me
> too..
> 
> Thanks in advance
> -Swapna
> 
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