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[ic] Cluster and/or load balancing question
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 08:46, cfm@maine.com wrote:
>
> I'm curious as to what level of activity justifies load balancing?
I wish I knew the answer. That is a very good question.
> Or are you doing it just for redundancy?
Yes, that is the primary reason.
>
> I'd think NFS would cost you more performance in the above setup than it
> would be worth vs more beef for handling session files.
Maybe. I wish I had a high performance, easy to use distributed or
shared file system.
>
> One might also consider separating www/ic into two machines. We don't
> use apache on our vanilla sites; where we do, it's a mod_perl, mod_ssl,
> mod_rewrite behemoth with all the bells and whistles
> and that really hammers a machine compared to WN or Roxen. A straight
> version might be a lot easier on the machine, I'd guess. We've found
> separating those mod_* apaches from ic makes a huge difference. YMMV.
>
>
> cfm
> Christopher F. Miller, Publisher cfm@maine.com
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