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MixTape.me
by philippej
& 3 others
(via)
"The internet makes it easy to share anything with anyone across the globe in a heartbeat; it's about time music joined the party."
2008
How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster With MySQL 5.1 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by camel
This tutorial is based on Falko Timme's tutorial for MySQL Cluster 5.0. It shows how to configure a MySQL 5.1 cluster with five nodes: 1 x management, 2 x storage nodes and 2 x balancer nodes. This cluster is load-balanced by an Ultra Monkey package which provides heartbeat (for checking if the other node is still alive) and ldirectord (to split up the requests to the nodes of the MySQL cluster).
In this document I use Debian Etch 4.0 for all nodes. Therefore the setup might differ a bit for other distributions. The two data nodes were x64 to use all of the 8GB RAM. Servers were compiled from source so you should be able to make it running on any platform. The MySQL version I use in this setup is 5.1.24-rc. It's a release candidate, but I wanted to use 5.1 to take advantage of Memory-Disk Based tables.
Beginning with MySQL 5.1.6, it is possible to store the non-indexed columns of NDB tables on disk, rather than in RAM as with previous versions of MySQL Cluster.
How To Set Up A Loadbalanced High-Availability Apache Cluster Based On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by camel
This tutorial shows how to set up a two-node Apache web server cluster that provides high-availability. In front of the Apache cluster we create a load balancer that splits up incoming requests between the two Apache nodes. Because we do not want the load balancer to become another "Single Point Of Failure", we must provide high-availability for the load balancer, too. Therefore our load balancer will in fact consist out of two load balancer nodes that monitor each other using heartbeat, and if one load balancer fails, the other takes over silently.
Loadbalanced High-Availability Apache Cluster Using Ultramonkey
by camel
how to set up a two-node Apache web server cluster that provides high-availability. In front of the Apache cluster we create a load balancer that splits up incoming requests between the two Apache nodes. Because we do not want the load balancer to become another "Single Point Of Failure", we must provide high-availability for the load balancer, too. Therefore our load balancer will in fact consist out of two load balancer nodes that monitor each other using heartbeat, and if one load balancer fails, the other takes over silently.
Setting Up A High-Availability Load Balancer (With Failover and Session Support) With HAProxy/Heartbeat On Debian Etch | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by camel
& 1 other
This article explains how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with HAProxy and heartbeat on Debian Etch. The load balancer sits between the user and two (or more) backend Apache web servers that hold the same content. Not only does the load balancer distribute the requests to the two backend Apache servers, it also checks the health of the backend servers. If one of them is down, all requests will automatically be redirected to the remaining backend server. In addition to that, the two load balancer nodes monitor each other using heartbeat, and if the master fails, the slave becomes the master, which means the users will not notice any disruption of the service. HAProxy is session-aware, which means you can use it with any web application that makes use of sessions (such as forums, shopping carts, etc.).
From the HAProxy web site: "HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing. Supporting tens of thousands of connections is clearly realistic with todays hardware. Its mode of operation makes its integration into existing architectures very easy and riskless, while still offering the possibility not to expose fragile web servers to the Net."
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2007
HA Xen Cluster with DRBD, LVM and heartbeat
by camel
We have implemented a 2-node HA Xen cluster, which consists of two physical machines (hosts,) and runs several virtual servers (guests) each, for our company's internal services (mail, web applications, development, etc.)
When one host gets down unexpectedly, the other host physically kills it (STONITH - power down or reset) and then takes over all the guests the failed host was running.
When we want to shutdown a host machine for maintenance (to replace a fan, add disk or memory, etc.), we just type the usual shutdown command, and the guests are automatically live-migrated to the other host. Since the guest servers keep running throughout the migration process, except for the less than a second pause, users would never even notice the event.
Mark's IT Blog: MySQL 5 High Availability with DRBD 8 and Heartbeat 2
by mbertier
(via)
In this article, we're going to go through the entire process of installing, configuring and testing DRBD, Heartbeat and MySQL running in a 2 node cluster environment. This will be a bare bones configuration, best practices and security will take a back seat while we learn how all the different pieces work together.
HomePage: Linux HA
by pvergain
& 2 others
The Linux-HA project is a widely used and important component in many interesting High Availability solutions, and ranks as among the best HA software packages for any platform. We estimate that we currently have more than thirty thousand installations up in mission-critical uses in the real world since 1999. Interest in this project continues to grow. These web pages are average nearly 20000 hits per day, and we see more than 100 downloads of Heartbeat per day.
Heartbeat now ships as part of SUSE Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Flag Linux, and Gentoo Linux. Ultra Monkey, and several company's embedded systems are also based on it. Although this is called the Linux-HA project, the software is highly portable and runs on FreeBSD and Solaris, even !MacOS/X and OpenBSD from time to time.
jxta.org
by cyberien
& 3 others
(via)
Project JXTA Objectives
* Interoperability - across different peer-to-peer systems and communities
* Platform independence - multiple/diverse languages, systems, and networks
* Ubiquity - every device with a digital heartbeat
Imagine the possibilities!
* Find peers and resources on the network even across firewalls
* Share files with anyone across the network
* Create your own group of peers of devices across different networks
* Communicate securely with peers across public networks
2006
KarKomaOnline - Implementing High Availability in MySQL
by holyver
& 2 others
(via)
MySQL provides a built-in data replication functionality for maintaining identical copies of its data to one or more backend servers, thus providing a simple High Availability mechanism. On the other hand, the Open Source community has several projects to implement failover techniques, being one of them Heartbeat.
This article will show you how to implement a clustered, highly available and inexpensive solution based on GNU/Linux and combining MySQL as the database engine and Heartbeat as the failover mechanism. The configuration will consist of a 2-node active/passive cluster.
Comment pouvoir assurer la disponibilité d'un service avec HeartBeat ?
by holyver
(via)
L"idée générale pour assurer la disponibilité d"un service est de faire fonctionner plusieurs machines (deux au minimum) en même temps. Ces machines forment ce qu"on appelle un cluster et chaque machine est un node du cluster. Chacune des machines va vérifier si les autres répondent toujours en prenant le pouls de chacune des autres. Si une machine cesse de fonctionner, les autres assurent le service.
Une fois le cluster configuré, on y accède au travers d"une seule et unique adresse IP qui est celle du cluster; qui lui-même est composé de plusieurs nodes.
Pour pouvoir mettre en place ce genre de technique, nous allons utiliser l"application HeartBeat qui va se charger de surveiller les machines et d"appliquer une série de scripts définis par l"utilisateur si cela s"avère nécessaire (c"est-à-dire si une machine tombe).
DRBD in a Heartbeat | Linux Journal
by holyver
(via)
This high-availability solution works by replicating a disk partition in a master/slave mode. The server that is running as a master has full read/write access to that partition; whereas the server running as slave has absolutely no access to the partition but silently replicates all changes made by the master server.
How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by holyver
& 5 others
This tutorial shows how to configure a MySQL 5 cluster with three nodes: two storage nodes and one management node. This cluster is load-balanced by a high-availability load balancer that in fact has two nodes that use the Ultra Monkey package which provides heartbeat (for checking if the other node is still alive) and ldirectord (to split up the requests to the nodes of the MySQL cluster).
Linux.com | Keep your Web site online with a High Availability Linux Apache cluster
by woody3k
Failover clusters are used to ensure high availability of system services and applications even through crashes, hardware failures, and environmental mishaps. In this article, I'll show you how to implement a rock-solid two-node high availability Apache cluster with the heartbeat application from The High-Availability Linux Project. I tested the cluster on Fedora Core 5, CentOS 4.3, and Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS server distributions.
High-availability middleware on Linux, Part 1: Heartbeat and Apache Web server
by springnet
In this first of five articles, learn what it means for software to be highly available and how to install and set up heartbeat software from the High-Availability Linux project on a two-node system. You'll also learn how to configure the Apache Web serve
http://www.workboy.com/charles/mysql-heartbeat/InstallMasterMySQL.html
by springnet
Edit /etc/syslog.conf to include a local1 (for example) facility entry for MasterMySQL to write to. Also update the top line so that local1 doesn't write to /var/log/messages: *.info;local1.none;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messa
How To Set Up A Loadbalanced High-Availability Apache Cluster | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by camel
& 3 others
(via)
This tutorial shows how to set up a two-node Apache web server cluster that provides high-availability. In front of the Apache cluster we create a load balancer that splits up incoming requests between the two Apache nodes. Because we do not want the load balancer to become another "Single Point Of Failure", we must provide high-availability for the load balancer, too. Therefore our load balancer will in fact consist out of two load balancer nodes that monitor each other using heartbeat, and if one load balancer fails, the other takes over silently
How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by camel
& 5 others
(via)
This tutorial shows how to configure a MySQL 5 cluster with three nodes: two storage nodes and one management node. This cluster is load-balanced by a high-availability load balancer that in fact has two nodes that use the Ultra Monkey package that provides heartbeat (for checking if the other node is still alive) and ldirectord (to split up the requests to the nodes of the MySQL cluster).
2005
Home Heartbeat
by imran
Wireless sensors, keychain monitors & mobiles let you see the current status of your house at a glance
