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More than one server across multiple datacenters is the only way. The use either a load balancer (which brings its own problems) or some kind of status aware DN
by al_james 16y ago
More than one server across multiple datacenters is the only way. The use either a load balancer (which brings its own problems) or some kind of status aware DNS scheme to route traffic to live servers.
I wish linode would offer some kind of high availability load balancing like amazon ec2 does, that really is a killer feature.
- rbranson 16y agoI wouldn't be so sure that ELB's are actually failing whole IP addresses across availability zones. Given the current ELB architecture is heavily dependent on dynamic DNS resolution, I am pretty suspicious that they are using DNS for failover. The separate set of DNS servers specifically for elb.amazonaws.com and the 60 second TTLs on the CNAMEs they generate seem to indicate this. Of course, there is no documentation to either confirm, or deny this. Amazon simply states in vague terms that it's highly available, but doesn't state how it's designed, or even possible failure outcomes.
- al_james 16y agoHmmm. Interesting point. However, if that were the case, why would ELBs be restricted to single AWS regions? Anyway, its a nice feature that it just works without me needing to set it up.