How To Create a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs
Heartbeat is an open-source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities to client servers. These capabilities are a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a 2-node HA server setup by simply using Heartbeat and a [DigitalOcean Floating IP](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-floating-ips-on-digitalocean). Choose your operating system to begin.
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