Yes, thanks Paul.
Of course, using disk arrays and/or file servers is a common way of serving the files
to large web clusters, as we heard Doug Nottage speak about at the FuseBox conference.
The critical distinction I am making is using the CF Mapping to tell CF where the
files are, vs setting up a virtual directory in an IIS web site, or using an NT
mapping directly as the web root, to tell the server where the files are.
Where FuseBox fits in is that CF mappings are already widely used. That way, it's
simply a matter of changing the CF mapping (and copying the source code to the shared
location) when going from a development machine to a clustered machine.
Has anybody ever done this or played around with using a CF mapping to get to files
off the server in a cluster? What would be the advantages/dis-advantages of doing it
this way?
One dis-advantage I just thought of is the bi-location of the code. The index.cfm
would still need to be on each actual server, and all the other includes would be off
the server. Why not do it at a lower level, as above, and be done with it?
In any case there may be other ramifications and benefits that people might think
of....
At 03:58 PM 10/17/00 -0700, paul smith wrote:
>Check out http://www.shanje.com/loadbalancing.shtml
>Shiloh uses the file server approach. Shiloh
>currently achieves over 99.96% uptime with 13,000+
>websites on each server in the cluster.
>
>best, paul
>
>At 06:06 PM 10/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>No, that's not quite the idea I have. You keep the source code off of ANY of the
>servers, but it is still available to any given one, kind of like a file server for
>the CF server cluster.
>>
>>At 04:30 PM 10/17/00 -0500, Scott Knaub wrote:
>>>This sounds like it would be more convenient, but doesn't it go against the
>>>basic concept of clustering which allows you to have multiple locations for
>>>your Fusebox code so your Web site does not go down?
>>>
>>>I'd like to know more about this method off-list. I have some support files
>>>I may want to have available to the Web servers via this method.
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