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Folks--<br>
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<div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);">DNS round-robin is what I was talking about. It
would be NOT be the first step. To re-iterate what I think is a
good time-flow:<br>
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<li>Somebod(y|ies) shows off a new, shiny CLUE website.</li>
<li>CLUE loves it, and Dennis or Dave updates the A records to
point to it.</li>
<li>Somebod(y|ies) says, "Hey, that's pretty, but it's failure
prone!"</li>
<li>Somebod(y|ies) copy everything to their additional
server(s), as a backup.</li>
<li>We test, check, and configure the data-flows to keep the
additional server(s) up-to-date. We have reasonable
convergence times between nodes in this ghetto cluster.</li>
<li>We add (an) A record(s), so the servers are
"load-balanced".</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>Everyone has one Heck of a lot of fun solving the problems
in 5. We publish our findings for others to use.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>A box goes down, or somebody rage-quits.</li>
<li>We remove that A record, call for ghetto hosting
volunteers, they update, and we add A records.<br>
</li>
</ol>
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If only it was that simple. :) Please, one of the drupalers, let
David know why it won't work that easily. <br>
<br>
( Hint: This is a test of the drupal fans to show off that they
really know/understand their chosen software. )<br>
<br>
Raymond<br>
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