Failover clusters are used to ensure high availability of system services and applications even through crashes, hardware failures, and environmental mishaps. Linux.com has an article that illustrates how to implement a two-node, high-availability Apache cluster with the heartbeat application from the High-Availability Linux Project, which the author has tested on Fedora Core 5, CentOS 4.3, and Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS server distributions.

Posted by Justin at 3:23 PM PST — Tags: apache, linux