Pick up a copy of Blueprints for High Availability 2nd edition for a
good explanation of clustering.
Chances are you don't want to implement it yet, there are at least a
half-dozen things you can do to improve uptime that are drastically
cheaper.

Rick DeBay

-----Original Message-----
From: hay77772000 [mailto:dhay@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:43 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Clustering



--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Martijn Tonies"
<m.tonies@u...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > I understand that Firebird doesn't have any built-in clustering.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend any tools to be able to cluster Firebird?
> >
> > Any real-life experiences?
>
> Please define "clustering" - do you mean one service taking
> over of another after the it has failed? (crashed)
>
> Or do you mean two services on two machines using the
> same physical datafiles?

Errr...anything that will allow us to scale!!

I'm a beginner at all this, but I would say that we are looking to
run database on a cluster of machines in such a way that they all
**share** the load. This, I am assuming, will also provide failover
for free - if one of them crashes, the others will carry on.

Any ideas on how to implement this with Firebird, and what tools
would help?

Many thanks,

David








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