Re: [users@httpd] building a web farm

2013-11-01 Thread trifo
Thanks Tom, Balancing is solved well in this case, as we run on enterprise hardware load balancers. They do a lot of work. For the node grouping I think there are too few nodes to give up the half of them for most of the time. Sadly the highest change rates occur during the highest usage times. B

Re: [users@httpd] building a web farm

2013-11-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:30 PM, trifo wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > > Well, I forget to mention that we run on AIX, not on Linux. And so it is. > The files MUST be consistent in any moment of time. There is a period of > time when a lot of pages are changing in every 5 minutes. The point r

Re: [users@httpd] building a web farm

2013-10-31 Thread trifo
Thanks for the replies. Well, I forget to mention that we run on AIX, not on Linux. And so it is. The files MUST be consistent in any moment of time. There is a period of time when a lot of pages are changing in every 5 minutes. Well, rsync is used to push the changes, mixed with some other tools

Re: [users@httpd] building a web farm

2013-10-31 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:54:14AM +0100, trifo wrote: > I am running a web site using Apache httpd on several server nodes to > provide high availability and performance. At present, the web content > resides on a clustered filesystem (GPFS) to ensure that all the nodes serve > the same content in

Re: [users@httpd] building a web farm

2013-10-31 Thread Yehuda Katz
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:54 AM, trifo wrote: > I am running a web site using Apache httpd on several server nodes to > provide high availability and performance. At present, the web content > resides on a clustered filesystem (GPFS) to ensure that all the nodes serve > the same content in any mo

[users@httpd] building a web farm

2013-10-31 Thread trifo
Hi Folks, I am running a web site using Apache httpd on several server nodes to provide high availability and performance. At present, the web content resides on a clustered filesystem (GPFS) to ensure that all the nodes serve the same content in any moment. Well, GPFS is quite an expensive produ