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Can you Mismatch Hardware and Virtual Appliances for High Availability?

By socialPosted on November 4, 2021Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cluster Configuration, ecoprintQ, HA, Hardware, High Availability, High Availibility Configuration, loadbalancer, loadbalancing, Virtual appliancesNo Comments

When might you want to do this? What are your options if you want high availability but can’t afford a conventional load balancing solution? Could you have a dedicated hardware load balancer for all of your load balancing needs, and then a separate virtual appliance to temporarily shoulder the load should you ever have downtime? […]

What Can We Learn From the Recent Facebook Outage?

By socialPosted on October 25, 2021Posted in ecoprintQ, loadbalancerTagged ecoprintQ, HA, High Availability, IT, Load balancer, Load balancing, loadbalancer, SystemNo Comments

On the October 4th 2021, the social media giant Facebook experienced a global outage, affecting not only Facebook, but also other Facebook products, including Instagram and WhatsApp. The outage lasted for around 6 hours. This of course affected many people all across the world, but now that the issue has been resolved and Facebook has released […]