Chapter 5. High Availability and Fault-Tolerant Clusters
Server downtime is generally a bad thing. Losing access to vital resources can cost a company millions of dollars in lost revenue, and result in decreased worker productivity. A business or resource that relies on the uptime of a particular service can be crippled by lost connectivity. Imagine what might happen if an application with no redundancy fails.
Let’s say that you’re the system administrator for a bank in your small town. You create a secure web server to allow the customers real-time access to their bank accounts. Having services such as this potentially allows the bank to grow their ...
Get Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
