Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 25, 2006 07:08 AM
Round Robin DNS isn't as bad as the first poster makes it out to be. It load balances well enough that the load is distributed enough for most web hosting applications. I use it to serve out 130+ blogs on two servers doing almost a million hits a day. If you need to fail over, just have the other member assume both IP addresses.
rsync though is pretty corny, I'll agree. NFS works well.
When scaling out, one must determine the requirements -- is it simply load sharing or redundancy? There's nothing wrong with just going for load sharing, if that meets your requirements.
All that said, you get a lot of bang for your buck by simply tuning your servers properly.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 25, 2006 07:08 AMrsync though is pretty corny, I'll agree. NFS works well.
When scaling out, one must determine the requirements -- is it simply load sharing or redundancy? There's nothing wrong with just going for load sharing, if that meets your requirements.
All that said, you get a lot of bang for your buck by simply tuning your servers properly.
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