[FX.php List] [OFF] Looking for information about load-balancing

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Hi Bob,

FYI, I recently set up a client with FMP Web Publishing at Amazon Web 
Services (AWS) and am about to try out their Elastic Load Balancing 
(ELB) service.  The service monitors the health of each server and 
automatically switches on new instances when needed...at least in 
theory.

I'll keep you posted.

Jonathan


At 9:40 PM -0400 6/14/12, Denis Somar wrote:
>Your solution would be a content delivery network.  Especially if 
>it's only static html pages.  My gut answer is to set this up on 
>Amazon's AWS servers somehow, and maybe even install FileMaker at 
>Amazon as well.
>
>HTH,
>Denis
>
>On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Bob Patin 
><<mailto:bob at patin.com>bob at patin.com> wrote:
>
>Thanks, but that doesn't solve what I need.
>
>I have a ton of FileMaker Server machines here, so that's not the 
>issue; the issue is that they want zero downtime, and their website 
>includes literally millions of static HTML pages (the reason is 
>complicated); although it's a FileMaker-powered site, the biggest 
>issue is that their site itself involves somewhere between 2-3 
>million HTML pages.
>
>The biggest issue isn't so much hardware or software, but the 
>possibility of a region-wide Internet outage, for which no amount of 
>server room prevention can remedy. In that case, it could be hours 
>before service is restored, as was the case when someone cut a huge 
>trunk line in the South somewhere, cutting Internet service for 
>several states for quite some time (fortunately I wasn't part of 
>that outage).
>
>Because they can't tolerate even a half-hour outage, I'm searching 
>for a device that would roll them to another server pair in another 
>location in the US; it'll mean their maintaining 2 sets of HTML 
>files, but they're wanting it, so i'm trying to find it...
>
>Thanks,
>
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>On Jun 14, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Nick wrote:
>
>>The cheapest solution is to just run backup jobs and (s)ftp them 
>>away to that other location regularly.  Have additional filemaker 
>>server software loaded and ready to turn on if needed... but 
>>regardless it will be a small hassle.
>
>There are also solutions like these (but seem to be designed to work 
>on LANs only):
><http://www.neverfailgroup.com/solutions/high-availability.html>http://www.neverfailgroup.com/solutions/high-availability.html
>I saw them mentioned 
>on <http://www.hostfilemaker.com/Custom>http://www.hostfilemaker.com/Custom when 
>I was looking for this...
>I was at a filemaker developer convention in 2008 and I think they 
>may be the same company that was there, but not sure.
>
>On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Bob 
>Patin <<mailto:bob at patin.com>bob at patin.com> wrote:
>
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