Posted by Colin McKinnon on 06/27/05 11:24

Gordon Burditt wrote:

>>> You know how yahoo has thousands of servers, but you only ever see
>>> "yahoo.com/..." in the browser window?
>>>
>>> I'd like to do the same thing, so as to avoid sub domains such as
>>> g1.gallery.com,
>>> g2.gallery.com, etc
>>>
>>> so that everything is just at gallery.com.
>>
>> I heard the jargon "Round-robin DNS", but didn't dig on that.
>
> Round-robin DNS requires *EVERY* server in the round-robin to have
> access to *EVERY* piece of content it needs to serve.

No it doesn't. But it does make life a lot simpler.

> One way of
> doing this is a big storage farm (which can contain as many CPUs
> as needed) with all the content on it, and some web servers that
> remote-mount all the volumes.
>

Presumably the content is split across multiple servers because there's too
much to fit on just one?

Assuming you're running Linux You caould set up a network raid device using
the data areas of the servers.

If you want a programmatic solution - think 404 handler.

C.

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