Thanks Chris. Great advice. I think they may be hoping that they are going to be the next Amazon! I will look into lighttpd as that sounds interesting. Is it easy to setup?
Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: blueonyx-boun...@mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx- > boun...@mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet > Sent: 13 September 2013 15:00 > To: blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > Subject: [BlueOnyx:13679] Re: Load balanced BO's > > On 9/13/2013 8:44 AM, Richard Sidlin wrote: > > Hi > > > > We have just installed a dedicated BO server for a client. They seem > > to think that they will see demand in excess of one server. We > > installed it on a Quad Core XEON L5320 with 10GB RAM on 5108R. > > Well, that greatly depends on the traffic, the construction of the site, and any > underlying optimization that has gone on. There are really a lot of variables > to be considered - too many to give the yes/no answer you're probably > looking for. > > I have one customer system in front of me right now that is responsible for a > single site that generates roughly 45Mbps of throughput during peak times, > and around 15Mbps off-peak. That server operates with less power and > RAM than the system you mention, and it never has any issues. > Something we did was install lighttpd on the box and serve the static > content with it (via proxy) and continue to have Apache handle the heavy > lifting on dynamic content. If that's "cheating," then so be it. ;) > > > Question is, how many roughly could access the one site that is on > > this server at the same time? If we need to go beyond that, is there > > an easy way to set up a cluster? > > You can use Aventurin{e} to easily set up clustering, but it's failover > clustering, not load balancing. > > IMO, BlueOnyx is not what you want to be using if you're setting up > multi-server clusters for performance. BlueOnyx is ideally suited as a > hosting appliance. That is it's goal in life and is what it's DNA is > specifically coded to do. Your customer's thought process aside for a > moment, before I started looking into clusters and so forth, I'd be looking > into things such as performance-tuning MySQL for the specific site, the > possibility of utilizing a lightweight http proxy, or even leveraging a CDN if > need be. Cobbling together a load-balancing BlueOnyx installation seems like > more trouble than it's worth to me. > > -- > Chris Gebhardt > VIRTBIZ Internet Services > Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated > www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx