At where I work, we have had great results with f5 BigIP for high-availability and load-balancing on the front end. Meaning someone surfs to the big IP's exported address and gets one of the servers beneath. It's very configurable. For the MySQL end you could synchronize with MySQL Cluster. If you really are uptime-oriented, you could split the MySQL off into a different server cluster. If you have shared (non-database) storage that both hosts need access to, nothing beats a NAS mount for simplicity. Of course, you'd have to make that redundant... It's definitely doable, but it can get expensive real quick if you don't have an existing infrastructure... -Dave > Wow, I've been thrown in the deep end on this. > > I've used Linux on the desktop for a while now but this week I was asked > to > set up a LAMP server, and it's been a very new experience for me. > > Now, I've been asked about taking said LAMP server and having a synced, > redundant backup that would take over automatically in the case of a > server > problem. Is this doable, and if so, where do I begin to look? > > -- > > Jordan Peacock > hewhocutsdown at gmail.com > hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dave Carlson <thecubic at thecubic.net>