failover / fault-tolerant configurations

[Igor Clark]

Store all session info in a separate database, keyed by ID?

On 21 May 2008, at 22:29, J Davis wrote:

>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:41 PM, alex clemesha <clemesha at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
> > Session affinity can be enable in nginx using ip_hash directive of  
> the nginx
> > upstream module.
> > One thing this will not get you is session failover. In other  
> words, if your
> > active instance of nginx dies the current information about  
> session affinity
> > will also be lost.
> I had a feeling this might be the case.  Are there any
> specific ways one can minimize / eliminate the loss of the
> current session information, or is this not possible with Nginx?
>
>
> None that I am aware of.  But I image a sufficiently determined  
> module developer could create one.
>
> -Jake
>

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