Hi,
I've now been charged researching for a rather involved project to
create a commerce site. After a short discussion, everyone on the team
seems to agree that linux and apache would be the right path to take.
However, there are many components to what we need to do and we'd like
some comments to make sure we avoid buying into a solution that doesn't
work.
This project is involved around four components: linux, apache, a
databse and a scripting environment.
For a database, we are pretty open and are trying to decide
between Oracle, Sybase, Informix and MySQL. At the moment, the only
requirement for a database is that is support replication model between
machines. Redundancy is really important to us. The corporate database
ports seem rather young. Have these been successfully integrate with the
linux environment yet?
For a scripting environment we're trying to decide between
perl+mod_perl+perlembed and php. The list of sites that use either is
quite extensive. Has anyone had any success or failures with either?
More importantly, has anyone had any success or failures with any
one of the database+script environment combinations made up of elements
from the sets listed above? Any experience tidbits would be greatly
helpful and appreciated.
As far as the operating system is concerned we're hoping we could
get some suggestions for increasing redundancy. Optimally there would be
some load balancing architecture which would also take care of redundancy
of service. Hopefully, we'd also have disk redundancy in the form of
anything from RAID-1 to a "SCSI switch"-like device to fiber channel. I
know RAID1,4,5 is supported but is there anything else out there? Does
linux have any equivalent to Logical Volume Manager of HP-UX where you can
grow filesystem sizes as necessary?
In terms of performance we'd like to set up large RAMdisks. Is
this just as simple as compiling MFS into the kernel and mounting devices
as MFS filesystems? Is there a limit to the size of an MFS? Is there
anything special I need to know about linux's implementation of MFS?
Lastly, we were wondering what people are using for backups. We
were hoping there is something more sophisticated than nightly dumps.
Any response would be greatly appreciated. Please reply directly
to me in addition to the list as I am not subscribed.
TIA
john.
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