Subject Re: [IB-Architect] Improving Failover
Author Emil Briggs
Markus Kemper wrote:
>
> From: "Markus Kemper" <mkemper@...>
>
> Currently InterBase 'Shadow' technology is bound to
> the node executing the InterBase engine. Would the
> ability to 'Shadow' to a remote node:
>
> a) be difficult to implement? (my guess is no)
> b) greatly enhance our failover story?
>
> Markus
>

I can't answer a) but I do beleive that shadowing to a
remote node would be a very useful feature to have for
ecommerce applications. It's pretty easy to implement
load sharing and/or redundancy at the web/app server
level. Would be nice to have it on the backend as well.

Emil