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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by textmode on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:05AM (#11916168)
Is it true that HN runs on a single server, running FreeBSD?
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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by willejs on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:36AM (#11916822)
Yes, it runs active passive, and its written in a Lisp dialect.
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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by jimbokun on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:16PM (#11917861)
What does "active passive" mean?
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Re:Samsung Acquires Joyent by travisby on Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:30PM (#11918655)
two servers, one "active" serving the website, one "passive" ready to serve the website when you bring the first down and perform some switching (DNS or moving an IP address).

Load balancing two separate servers you can consider as active-active for the terminology.

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