High availability refers to the practice of keeping online resources available through node failure or system maintenance. This guide will demonstrate a method for using two Linodes to keep a website online, even when the node initially hosting it is powered off. IP failover, Heartbeat 3.0,Pacemaker 1.1, DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device), MySQL and Apache 2.2 will be used for this example configuration.

As high availability is a complex topic with many methods available for achieving various goals, it should be noted that the method discussed here may not be appropriate for some use cases. However, it should provide a good foundation for developing a customized HA solution.

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