Re: [LUG] Which OS/Distro for secure production web server

[Jon Still <jon-pop@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, Feb 9, 2003, at 13:42 Europe/London, Roland Tarver wrote:
> > What are the consequences of failure? What are the things you are 
> > afraid
> of happening? Down time, disclosure, fraud?
>
> If it fails we will have 100 or so companies getting (only!) _annoyed_ 
> that
> their web sites are down, they will not be loosing massive online 
> orders.
> Down time is the major concern.

Use 2 boxes then.  You can mirror various paths on disk (e.g. the 
webroots, mail spools etc) at regular intervals using rsync over ssh.  
You can then use something like the Linux-HA projecct, VRRP, HSRP, etc 
to make sure that box B is made active when box A dies.

Jon.

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