Installing a high availability web server cluster on Ubuntu 12.10 using HAProxy, HeartBeat and Lampp

What is the main objective of this entire topology? Redundancy and Load Sharing! Imagine a scenario where your single web server is receiving millions and millions of HTTP requests per second, the CPU load is going insane, as well as the memory usage, when suddenly “crash!”, the server dies without saying good-bye (probably because of some weird hardware … Continue reading “Installing a high availability web server cluster on Ubuntu 12.10 using HAProxy, HeartBeat and Lampp”

Setting up RAID 1 (Mirroring) using “Two Disks” in Linux

RAID Mirroring means an exact clone (or mirror) of the same data writing to two drives. A minimum two number of disks are more required in an array to create RAID1 and it’s useful only, when read performance or reliability is more precise than the data storage capacity. Mirrors are created to protect against data … Continue reading “Setting up RAID 1 (Mirroring) using “Two Disks” in Linux”

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