round robin for failover?

[nico]

Following on one of my previous questions... re DNS failover

now to set up web server failover:
How would a load sharing round robin configuration behave in case of a web
server failure ?
i.e. if one of the web servers is down, would all traffic go to the
available server? or would 50% of the visitors get a "page cannot be
displayed" error?

If round robin is not suitable, any suggestion on achieving this kind of
failover (even if I have to lose the load sharing) ?

thanks

Nico

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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Following on one of my previous questions... re DNS failover

now to set up web server failover:
How would a load sharing round robin configuration behave in case of
a web server failure ?
i.e. if one of the web servers is down, would all traffic go to the
available server? or would 50% of the visitors get a "page cannot be
displayed" error?

If round robin is not suitable, any suggestion on achieving this kind
of failover (even if I have to lose the load sharing) ?

thanks

Nico

50% would get a page not found. That's the way it works.

You can either use MS' App Server to handle this or go 3rd party, one of
which is Dell's BigIP.


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