Jason Snyder started using Slackware 2.0 back in 1996 when it first came out and shortly thereafter the revised 2.0 version. Most of his base UNIX / Linux knowledge was gained under MP-RAS UNIX and so therefore he tend towards System V style thinking, ksh specific commands, and vi as your multi-purpose text editor. For a day job he primarily does dynamic web sites and other odds and ends.

For this presentation Jason will show one of the easier and more cost effective blueprints for achieving five 9's (99.999%) reliability with your production servers under Ubuntu (7.10) "Gutsy Gibbon" Linux and touch on where this blueprint is useful and how it compares to some other solutions out there with each of the solutions mentioned having their place. More specifically the solution to be discussed in detail is a basic share nothing fail-over cluster and the technologies and configuration options used to get the biggest bang for the buck. After this is presented, some other server layouts will be discussed briefly in order to help define the scope of this particular solution.