Alright, so as we all know IPv4 is reaching the point of exhaustion and its time to start getting ready for IPv6. This can be very important for those of us who host web servers as many hosting providers will also be switching to assigning IPv6 addresses or NAT based Private IP’s in the Class A space 10.0.0.0/8 for IPv4 or fc00::/7 for IPv6 (Unique Local Address “ULA”). With that in mind how are you going to host your website on IPv6 address space? There are many web servers available as free Open Source software such as nginx, apache (httpd), and lighthttpd. For the context of this...

What you need to know: 1. Familiar with linux text editors 2. Have a basic understanding of load balancing 3. Familiarity with Apache, MySQL, and rsync 4. The ability to create at least 4 virtual machines What does this set-up provide? This set-up will provide you with some very basic failover at the web servers by using a load balancer. Keep in mind I will not be discussing HA at the load balancer level so you will still have a single point of failure with this guide, as it is only intended to provide some fundamental knowledge on how to set-up a replicated and load balanced pair of web...