[SGVLUG] Hosting a Site over multiple locations and public IPs

[Edgar Garrobo]

I'm using RedHat (CentOS actually) and Windows 2008x64 all virtualized on
XenServer 5.  This is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application and
all of the clients run it through either the Citrix XenApp online plug-in or
through the Citrix Web Interface.  There is a SQL Server database that one
of the Citrix servers connects to for Farm management but it's usage is
light.  It's not static HTML, it's basically just a site that installs the
Citrix web plug-in and then the plug-in launches an ICA session.  At that
point the session with the website and web server doesn't matter anymore.

I have looked into LVS a bit but I'm not sure how it would help my setup.
I'm definitely implementing round robin DNS as a solution at this point,
though I'm still interested in seeing what people come up with as other and
possibly better solutions.

Thanks,

Edgar

-----Original Message-----
From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf
Of matti
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:23 AM
To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Hosting a Site over multiple locations and public IPs


Hi,

indeed a lot depends. What type of servers are you
using? Database? Static html only? e-commerce?? 

definitely imho you should be looking at a load balancer
solution.. too bad the budget died.

sounds like its time to try LVS?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_(computing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Virtual_Server

hmmm... actually this would make an interesting
topic.

thanks
matti