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How To Create a High Availability HAProxy Setup with Corosync, Pacemaker, and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 14.04 — Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a High Availability HAProxy Setup with Corosync, Pacemaker, and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 14.04

This tutorial will show you how to create a High Availability HAProxy load balancer setup on the cloud provider, with the support of a Floating IP and the Corosync/Pacemaker cluster stack. The HAProxy load balancers will each be configured to split traffic between two backend application servers. If the primary load balancer goes down, the Floating IP will be moved to the secondary load balancer automatically, allowing service to resume.

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3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime

As businesses and other organizations increasingly depend on internet-based services, attention is being focused on creating reliable infrastructure that minimizes costly downtime. In this article, we will discuss three areas where improvements could lead to less downtime for your organization. These areas are monitoring and alerting, software deployments, and high availability.

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Understanding Database Sharding — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Understanding Database Sharding

Sharded databases have been receiving lots of attention in recent years, but many don’t have a clear understanding of what they are or the scenarios in which it might make sense to shard a database. This conceptual article goes over what sharding is, some of its main benefits and drawbacks, and also a few common sharding methods.

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How To Set Up Highly Available Web Servers with Keepalived and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Highly Available Web Servers with Keepalived and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 14.04

Keepalived is a service that can monitor servers or processes in order to implement high availability on your infrastructure. In this guide, we will use the `keepalived` daemon to monitor two web servers. The secondary server will take over the web traffic if the primary server experiences issues by automatically claiming ownership of a shared Floating IP address using the cloud provider API.

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How To Configure a Galera Cluster with MariaDB on Debian 9 Servers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure a Galera Cluster with MariaDB on Debian 9 Servers

In this guide, you will configure an active-active MariaDB Galera cluster. For demonstration purposes, you will configure and test three Debian 9 Droplets that will act as nodes in the cluster. MariaDB is an open source relational database system that is fully compatible with the popular MySQL RDBMS system. Galera is a database clustering solution that enables you to set up multi-master clusters using synchronous replication.

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How To Configure a Galera Cluster with MariaDB on CentOS 7 Servers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure a Galera Cluster with MariaDB on CentOS 7 Servers

In this guide, you will configure an active-active MariaDB Galera cluster. For demonstration purposes, you will configure and test three CentOS 7 Droplets that will act as nodes in the cluster. MariaDB is an open source relational database system that is fully compatible with the popular MySQL RDBMS system. Galera is a database clustering solution that enables you to set up multi-master clusters using synchronous replication.

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5 Ways to Improve your Production Web Application Server Setup — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

5 Ways to Improve your Production Web Application Server Setup

Once your application is up and running in a cloud server environment, you may be wondering how you can improve your server environment to make the leap from “it works” to a full-fledged production environment. This article will help you get started with planning and implementing a production environment by creating a loose definition of “production”, and by showing you some components that you can add to your existing architecture to make the transition.

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