“Red Hat inc.’s Red Hat High Availability Server 1.0 provides
highly effective software-based dynamic load balancing and enhanced
fault tolerance for front-end, IP-based applications such as DNS,
FTP and Web servers for small to midsize enterprises at a low
cost.”
“In eWeek Labs’ tests, the Linux-based server software,
which began shipping last month, performed well under loads of up
to 300 simultaneous connections over 60 clients (see graph).
Even at these loads, we had no dropped connections or timed-out
threads, even when we yanked out the network connections from one
of the computers in our Web server farm….”
“Because High Availability Server is a customized distribution
of the Red Hat Linux 6.2 operating system with the company’s
Piranha clustering package providing the clustering service,
organizations interested in this product should also have some Red
Hat Linux administrator skills on staff to get the product up and
running.”