Just looking for ideas/thoughts if anyone cares to share.
We really do more application hosting than general web hosting. We're the only ones controlling the servers. I love DA because it makes setting up new applications very easy. We'd like to be able to load balance just apache and still use DirectAdmin if possible. The plan is to have two hardware load balancers right behind the firewalls (active and failover). We have separate dedicated mysql machines so we're not concerned about load balancing databases. Letting email go to just one machine is fine as email volume is not high.
I've thought about just having one DA machine and then just some other servers which only run apache. Either rsync the apache configuration from the DA server to the others or put it on a network file server or iscsi. Having just the one DA server obviously puts in one point of failure but I'm not sure how easy it would be to sync up multiple DA machines and they would be running a lot of unnecessary services. I could have one DA machine set up as a failover if the "master" in the above situation were to go down but that somehow does not seem ideal either.
DA might not be the right tool for this job, but I'm hoping I can make it work.
We really do more application hosting than general web hosting. We're the only ones controlling the servers. I love DA because it makes setting up new applications very easy. We'd like to be able to load balance just apache and still use DirectAdmin if possible. The plan is to have two hardware load balancers right behind the firewalls (active and failover). We have separate dedicated mysql machines so we're not concerned about load balancing databases. Letting email go to just one machine is fine as email volume is not high.
I've thought about just having one DA machine and then just some other servers which only run apache. Either rsync the apache configuration from the DA server to the others or put it on a network file server or iscsi. Having just the one DA server obviously puts in one point of failure but I'm not sure how easy it would be to sync up multiple DA machines and they would be running a lot of unnecessary services. I could have one DA machine set up as a failover if the "master" in the above situation were to go down but that somehow does not seem ideal either.
DA might not be the right tool for this job, but I'm hoping I can make it work.
