Site Clustering

[resellerlogic]

Does anyone know how to mirror a site so that it's on more than one server. Such as verizon.com has a www44 and www22 etc.

 

[vokkerzen]

Do you mean load balancing? This would be the same domain name but behind the scenes it directs to different servers based on the algorithm you specify

 

[resellerlogic]

Yeah that would be it.

 

[zaros64]

I dunno...try google.... that always seems to work

 

[Virgil]

Look for "round-robin dns" on google. Here's the definition (first result on google, btw): http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/Round_Robin_DNS.html

 

[primacomputer]

There are a lot of ways to do load balancing, but the www22 www44 looks like balancing using DNS.

Basically you need two or more servers which you replicate the site on. This can be done as simply as uploading twice. I assume if you need load balancing then you'll be using rsync or something.

Then you need to configure your DNS. If your running a recent version of bind you can just add all the A records and it will shuffle them automatically. Reducing your TTL will eliminate (nearly) the caching problem mention in that link.