High Availability for Origin Servers

[Paul_MM]

I’ve seen some answers regarding HA, but they are 7 years old in some respects lol.

My use case is for the origin servers to push to a HLS CDN. So I won’t be having any edge servers.

Is it possible, when a publisher connects to a SE, that if the server reboots/fails the stream can carry on to another SE?

What are the current options for handling failure with a server?

What are some users of wowza doing right now?

[Jermaine_Hemby]

Hello,

Thanks for contacting the Wowza Community!

For redundancy, you will need to setup a live repeater. This setup involves Wowza edges though and you do not need the edge servers.

Live Stream Repeater Information

This is our only failover method at this time. There are some other things you can do also, but that will all be on you to setup.

Example, is setup 2 servers and set them up on a VIP. Have your servers have a leader and backup. Anytime the leader is down, the backup will take over. This is something we have never tested, but it is an option that may or may not work.

Another Example, is to have 2 servers and 1 on hot-standby. You have code checking both servers and if it ever detects primary server is down, it will auto-reconfigure the IP of the secondary to be the same as the primary and all traffic will be pushed to the secondary server then. This has not been tested, but it is an option that may or may not work.

You may be able to have your CDN to detect an issue, I.E. stale playlist and have a rule to pull from a secondary configured server in the CDN configuration.

Because you will not be using the edge server setup, I am giving these options.

Hope this helps. If any further questions, feel free to contact us.

regards,

Jermaine