“Products introduce high-availability features at
comparatively low cost”
“Clustering will make Linux Web servers more reliable, but even
vendors acknowledged that Linux might need years to achieve the
full clustering capabilities of its big Unix brothers.”
“…TurboLinux Inc. is bringing high-availability cluster traits
like load balancing and fail-over to basic Web serving, said Dan
Birchall, a beta tester of the company’s TurboCluster technology at
Web hoster Digital Facilities Management Inc. in Haddonfield, N.J.
Birchall implemented a cluster that he said has performed well and
cost about $7,500 compared with a $75,000 commercial Unix
cluster.
A prototype of a Linux Web serving cluster from SGI and
clustering vendor Veritas Software Corp. in Mountain View, Calif.,
attracted the attention of Tony Ten Broeck, a Unix systems
administrator at The Money Store Inc. in Sacramento, Calif. The
vendors showed a prototype of a Linux Web serving cluster. Ten
Broeck said the Linux system would be a viable choice for Web
serving…”
“Veritas, meanwhile, isn’t sure whether it will release its
clustering software for Linux because it’s uncertain whether
there’s a big enough market among enterprise users…”