Hot Standby Hot Standby

Server NGINX
1

Following on from testing yesterday, I can’t see a way to do this:

  • Traffic —> backend1

  • backend1 fails

  • Traffic —> backend2 (hot standby)

  • backend2 fails

  • Traffic —> backend3 (2nd hot standby)

ie we cannot have a hot-standby-hot-standby.

The best I have come up with is weighting the two backup backends, so
only a very small amount of traffic goes to one of the two live backup
machines. This isn’t ideal - the spec I need to meet is to have two
tiers of failover, with the app only ever running on a single
instance.

How can I achieve this? Is it possible?

S.

2

stupid question, why your idea is any better than having 3 loadbalanced
servers?

anyway, what you are asking can be done with recursive error_pages.

3

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Almir K. [email protected]
wrote:

stupid question, why your idea is any better than having 3 loadbalanced
servers?

Just because the application isn’t very good - it doesn’t play nicely
running concurrently on more than one server,

anyway, what you are asking can be done with recursive error_pages.

Could you expand upon this?

S.