March 5th, 2008
High Scalability on Secure Virtual LANs
Slicehost was mentioned in an interview with Dmitriy Samovskiy at High Scalability. Dmitriy discusses an article he wrote for Linux Journal, Building a Multisourced Infrastructure Using OpenVPN. He proposes using OpenVPN to connect servers in multiple datacenters to minimize downtime and risk. It’s an interesting read for customers looking to ensure availability and pertinent for people running slices in both of our datacenters.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM Yousef Ourabi
I think a more interesting problem for Slice to tackle would be load-balancing to two or more instances.
A quick win for customer and provider.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM JJ
Wow. I should try this. I have not used Slicehost before.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:01 PM Scott Torborg
Regarding load balancing, it would be neat just to have a simple slice build with an appliance-like nginx load balancer.
E.g. you’d spawn a new slice of this type, go to a config page (also on the SliceManager) and enter the addresses of your application servers, and bam, it’s done.