John Barbee wrote:
> 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?
>
Try to get a Postgres 6.4.2 site is http://www.postgresql.org
For me it is a best free database and its works very well.
>
> 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?
>
bots work for me, also PSQL have a C/C++ interface thats works great
>
> 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.
All of their system tools based on script enviroment, most of mine too.
This database have also direct output HTML3.0 for results.
>
>
> 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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