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Way to rotate ftp server?

Posted by DakNet, 05-09-2012, 03:32 AM

I currently have a subdomain I use to connect to an ftp server (ftp.mydomain.com). How can I make this subdomain point to a different ftp server/different ip based on server load or just on a rotational basis?

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Posted by storminternet, 05-09-2012, 04:57 AM

Hi, This is something I would call as network load balancer. Windows server have its own inbuilt NLB architecture using which you can distribute the requests among multiple servers depending on load. Here this is possible to implement in two servers. Where as in case of Linux server, you can distribute traffic with the help of some third party scripts available. Here three servers will need, server1 for load balancer, server2 as ftp1 and server3 as ftp2. Request will be first come to server1. Server1 will rout it to server2 or server3 depending on load these servers.

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Posted by gotlivechat, 05-09-2012, 08:47 AM

You could experiment with DNS roundrobin. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS

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