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Old 17th June 2008
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bigb89, I am in a very similar situation of yours. As a hobby, I am building such a cluster.

The main problem here is cPanel. If you want to build such a cluster, you will need one cPanel license per node and then synchronize your nodes. This isn't very cool, knowing the cost of those licenses.

Anyway, the basic setup of a HP/HA Web hosting cluster is having two redundant load balancers (I recommend using PF and CARP for those) and a set of Web server nodes behind serving the pages with a common /tmp or a custom session store (you will need that your PHP sessions replicate from one node to another if one goes down).

After, if you want a MySQL cluster, it is another story...

I hope this is clear enough so you understand how it works and get started. If you need any help, feel free to post back here. I'm going to do my best to help you out with the best of my knowledge.

Good luck.
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