Re: HA without a cluster

Dusan Bolek wrote:

> I've seen few attempts to achieve something like this on Linux, but I
> must admit I was not convinced that this is a good approach. For me
> this wannabe cheap clusters are just very dangerous things that do not
> have a clear and solid architecture and can compromise your data
> consistency and/or availability maybe even more than just a single
> server enviroment.
> Dusan Bolek

Hardly. What do you think is running Amazon.com and many of the other high volume 7x24x365 web sites?

Right now Amazon has gotten rid of all but a few SuperDomes. Everything else is running on Linux clusters.

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