Re: [users@httpd] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio

2005-07-05 Thread Nick Kew
Ian Stuart wrote: > Doesn't the proxy do a write-to-disk as the page passes through? > Particularly with proxy-pass and proxy-passreverse? Well, if you're using disc-based cacheing (with mod_cache) then yes. But the proxy as such doesn't (why should it?) > This would imply that there is a process

RE: [users@httpd] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio

2005-07-05 Thread Veary, Marc, VF UK - Technology \(TS\)
Yep. Get your point. Appreciate your thoughts and help. Kind regards. -Original Message- From: Boyle Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 July 2005 09:24 To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio > -Original Message- > From

RE: [users@httpd] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio

2005-07-05 Thread Boyle Owen
> -Original Message- > From: Ian Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 09:57 > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio > > > Doesn't the proxy do a write-to-disk as the page passes through? > Particularly with

RE: [users@httpd] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio

2005-07-05 Thread Boyle Owen
> -Original Message- > From: Veary, Marc, VF UK - Technology (TS) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 10:11 > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio > > > My question was badly crafted, apologies... > > Let me

RE: [users@httpd] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio

2005-07-05 Thread Veary, Marc, VF UK - Technology \(TS\)
My question was badly crafted, apologies... Let me try again with an example: If I have 50 web sites, each a cluster of 10 physical machines with a web server on each. Now, I want to place Apache in front of these 50 sites (web server clusters) as a reverse proxy. What I am trying to figure o

Re: [users@httpd] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio

2005-07-05 Thread Ian Stuart
Doesn't the proxy do a write-to-disk as the page passes through? Particularly with proxy-pass and proxy-passreverse? This would imply that there is a process load on the server (limiting the number of simultanious connections - but not an httpd/proxy limit per-sae) *as well as* a disk-limit (for t

RE: [users@httpd] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio

2005-07-05 Thread Boyle Owen
> -Original Message- > From: Veary, Marc, VF UK - Technology (TS) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 09:35 > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio > > > Hi All, > > I am new to using Apache as a proxy. Could some