The production / warm standby back-end servers were automagically synced every hour. Yes, including the database.
This meant that:
1. we had a close-to-production testing server always available;
2. we had a way of quickly switching to almost completely up-to-date backup back-end server in case anything went down with the production.
The set-up on these back-ends included *two* nginx instances running parallel on different ports but with same config, serving same content.
Yes, on each.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 /
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2024-08-19 19:32:19
in reply to nevent1q…5lgr
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