Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 18, 2005 11:58 PM
Yes, if your budget can stretch to two hardware load balancers, then yes this is an obvious solution, but each balancer can cost twice as much as a Linux server on its own !
Storing sessions on a backend database again is fine if money is no object (because you'll need two balanced database servers remember ?) - I looked into balanced MySQL serving, but didn't see anything that was a) easy to set up and b) free or cheap (some companies want thousands for MySQL balancing software !).
What we really need is for the popular server distros to start packaging up all the tools/kernels/distributed filing system etc. for operating a balanced LAMP solution and ship it with the distro. It's a bit ridiculous that no-one's bothered doing this yet, especially considering how popular LAMP is. At the moment, you have to trawl around Web sites, gather together stuff, hand-hack an awful lot and keep your fingers crossed !
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 18, 2005 11:58 PMStoring sessions on a backend database again is fine if money is no object (because you'll need two balanced database servers remember ?) - I looked into balanced MySQL serving, but didn't see anything that was a) easy to set up and b) free or cheap (some companies want thousands for MySQL balancing software !).
What we really need is for the popular server distros to start packaging up all the tools/kernels/distributed filing system etc. for operating a balanced LAMP solution and ship it with the distro. It's a bit ridiculous that no-one's bothered doing this yet, especially considering how popular LAMP is. At the moment, you have to trawl around Web sites, gather together stuff, hand-hack an awful lot and keep your fingers crossed !
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