Anyone know what kind of hardware EV1 uses for server load balancing? Is it a third-party or custom solution or is it a regular load balancing switch?

As per my knowledge you get a switched loadbalancer.But with racks you get a dedicated hardware loadbalancer.I dont remember the brand name but they r good.You get full control of loadbalancer. Any kind of service can be clustered.We used port 3306 for loadbalancing mysql DB.

rohit, do you use any control panel? i mean, I have been researching and its not an easy task to replicate the databases when using lbc and a CP.

I am about to get a LBC solution and i want to use Plesk on it, but it doesnt seems to be a task that can be performed easily as plesk itself uses mysql, and the real problem i have is that plesk "nativelly" doesnt support LB.

I would love to know if there is any workarround or solution to this that ensures me at least that i can have all the data and db's up without having problems of data corruption in what databases concerns, as again the control panel i want to use uses mysql.

I have been thinking a lot on the posibility to have mysql runing as master-slave, where both servers uses lets say Server1 as the master mysql database server, and it replicates to server 2 every XX segs, and in the case of any failure, Server2 asumes the control until Server1 comes back.

Please if you have any workarround, please share it.

Best redards,

For mysql loadbalancing you dont get any Hardware Loadbalancers.The 1 which ev1 provides does lb for only 3 services port 80,443 & 21. And also we dont have any control on the LB. Yeah but if you have 2 servers on pnet you can use replication,yet replication works better on 100bmps lans not on 10mbps pnet whcih ev1 provides.

There is a workaround for you if tou have a dedicated partial rack with atleast 5 servers. They provide a dedicated hardware loadbalancer as well as dedicated 100mbps switch for pnet.You have full access to the LB which can be configured for any port(like 3306 for mysql).I have tried replication on 10mbps pnet but there is a hugh amount of latency on replication part.

If you have the above solution of partial rack you can go with NDB.Native mysql clustering.NDB works gr8.

Still ev1 will be providing a custom solution for mysql clustering with in near future for both dedicated as well as shared server users.

You can find some usefull info here http://forum.ev1servers.net/showthread.php...2582#post352582

Well that depends, are you talking the high availability clusters or a seperate load balancer with 5 or so servers...