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Here is the situation. We want a failover HA scenario for our website. We have two identical servers. One is local and the other is hosted elsewhere. Both are Fedora Core 3, apache, etc dual NIC's with IP's assigned.
We have tweaked kernels on both machines for drbd, compiled and created the module and installed heartbeat. Our thought was in the event of a crash, change the IP's dynamically to on the failover machine until the main one was up again. Unfortunately, we are tolf by the host that the IP's they have allocated to our server are only intended to be used on that server, in their datacenter. Therefor, the IP's are not portable and so we can not assign them to other servers.
They also said that if you wish to do what we want, that we would need to request our own ANS and IP space from ARIN and then establish a BGP session with their network and our own upstream provider to move your IPs from their datacenter to our own in house setup.
So, all that said, it's an awful lot of work to go through to get our own IP space.
Has anyone got an idea that is somewhat simpler? A failover scenario that would not require switching of dns, etc?
Thanks in advance for the help.
