Re: load balancing at fastmail.fm

From: Nik Conwell (no email)
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 09:49:01 EDT

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    On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Rob Mueller wrote:

    > Yep, this means we need quite a bit more software to manage the
    > setup, but now that it's done, it's quite nice and works well. For
    > maintenance, we can safely fail all masters off a server in a few
    > minutes, about 10-30 seconds a store. Then we can take the machine
    > down, do whatever we want, bring it back up, wait for replication
    > to catch up again, then fail any masters we want back on to the
    > server.

    Just curious how you do this - do you just stop the masters and then
    change the proxy to point to the replica? Webmail users shouldn't
    notice this but don't the desktop IMAP clients notice?

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