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Redundancy for Web Services

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by lyubera

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What are the methods of designing the redundancy for the Web Servers? We need to do maintenance on the Web servers with no downtime.
What are the best redundancy solutions

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by dmbrock

The most straightforward method is to enable a virtual IP on a Load Balancing Switch, with each of your physical web servers as a service component of it.

Your site resolves to the virtual IP, and the switch hands off the request to one of the actual services on your real web servers.

When you need to take one of the servers offline, you take it out of the rotation for the virtual IP, and the others handle all the traffic.

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