[ic] Running IC on a separate server than the web server

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Kevin Walsh)]

> > >
> > > And what about performance? Have you compared the performance between a
> > > normal IC implementation and the one that runs on a separate server? I mean,
> > > that if the local LAN has for some reason heavy traffic, then that slows
> > > down the site..
> > > 
> > The speed of the local LAN will not affect the performance of
> > Interchange itself, unless the database server is on a separate
> > machine or you are sharing filesystems using NFS.  
> >
> *grin* All of the above (separate SQL server as well) and it still
> outperforms our old server with Apache and IC running side-by-side.
> 
I agree - nothing beats a setup like that.  As long as the local
LAN is not saturated, this is the best way to go.  The web servers,
the Interchange servers and the NFS/DB can all sit on their own
private little LAN if needs be.

> >
> > Database/NFS issues aside, the LAN bandwidth will only affect the
> > time it takes for tlink to pass requests from Apache to
> > Interchange and the time it takes to pass responses back.
> >
> Exactly. I'm extremely pleased with our new setup from the security
> and speed aspects ... and for future expansion. This makes it easy to
> mirror not only the web server but also the IC server if need be.
> 
Yes.

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