On November 17, 2003 02:22 pm, Bill Stoddard wrote: > application environments. Being able to eliminate 1 machine in 3 due to > scalability improvements in 2.0 probably won't be a sufficient return > on investment for most folks. A really kick-ass load balancing/active > fail-over feature in mod_proxy might generate some interest in 2.0 > deployed in the DMZ (features like this are significantly easier to > implement in threaded webservers).
Which reminds me, I must find someone who would be prepared to discuss our distributed session caching stuff (ww.distcache.org) for use with apache2/mod_ssl. Any takers? There are companies out there flogging pretty lame and expensive SSL load-balancers and if you're running more than one machine for https, you're almost obliged to go down that route even if it hurts all your rational sense. If scalability and architectural flexibility are part of the argument for 2.0, would it be advantageous to get distcache support included into apache? Mandrake and Redhat already have (optional) support in their SRPMS, FWIW. The apache glue to the distcache API is a pretty small patch - an autoconf check plus an additional caching module/syntax in modules/ssl/. Use of the alternative session cache mode is via an alternative syntax to the SSLSessionCache configuration parameter. We upgraded the httpd patch to 2.0.48 recently, but on the distcache side we are in the midst of trying to move the "development" branch to "stable" before chasing down integration too hard. Last time I looked into getting our patch into the upstream code, there were one or two fairly important unresolved bugs in distcache and apache's autoconf support for openssl/ssl-c needed quite a bit of reorganisation. I helped with the latter at that time, and we sorted out the remaining issues in distcache shortly after. So ... if there's anyone on the apache side who'd be prepared to look deeper into this and discuss integration with apache, please make contact with me off the list. Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geoffthorpe.net/