High Availability for the LAMP Stack Step by Step

This step-by-step guide teaches you everything you need to know to eliminate single points of failure for your Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP-based web applications.

Why This Course Is for You?

• Do you wish your website was always up so you could finally enjoy a peaceful night's sleep?
• Do you want to scale without downtime and handle unexpected traffic surges?
• Do you want a reliable solution that just works—without weeks of testing different combinations of technologies?
• Do you want someone to walk you through an entire deployment, step-by-step?

If so, you’re in the right place.

I understand, because I’ve been there. I know what it’s like to be woken up in the middle of the night when a web server goes down. I strive to eliminate single points of failure and ensure service availability. A robust, easy-to-support design lets you fix issues at your convenience—not during a crisis.

What You'll Learn?

You’ll learn how to deploy a well-designed, well-tested high-availability LAMP stack that:

• Easily scales to support more users
• Reduces downtime to a minimum
• Covers all single points of failure, even the less obvious ones

Where This Architecture Works:

• Physical servers (bare metal)
• Virtual environments: VMWare, VirtualBox, Ovirt, RHEV, KVM, Xen
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Rackspace Cloud, or any other provider

What This Solution Supports:

• Custom-written LAMP applications
• Popular open-source apps: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, MediaWiki, phpBB, Redmine, SugarCRM, and more.

This is a complete course—not just a design document. You’ll get:

• ✅ 20+ HD videos demonstrating real implementations on Linux servers
• ✅ Diagrams to reference while building your environment
• ✅ Configuration files for each service
• ✅ Scripts to automate the full High Availability LAMP Stack deployment
• ✅ Step-by-step guidance with Ubuntu servers (concepts apply to RedHat, CentOS, etc.)
• ✅ Real-world reusable techniques for: Floating IPs, scalable storage, load balancing, HA database clusters.

After completing the course, you’ll be able to:

• Deploy highly available web services
• Scale without downtime
• Add storage on the fly
• Survive single points of failure
• Sleep through the night without emergency server calls
• Grow infrastructure to support more users without starting over