Re: Growing Up

2007-04-25 Thread Carl Johnstone
There is a consideration, regarding using a proxy or a different server, that has not been brought up: If there is mod_perl based access control for the static files, then it's basically impossible not to go through a mod_perl server to serve them. If you're access control is in mod_perl, you

AW: Growing Up

2007-04-18 Thread Denis Banovic
] Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. April 2007 18:46 An: Perrin Harkins Cc: Clinton Gormley; modperl@perl.apache.org Betreff: Re: Growing Up On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:48:57 -0400 Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/17/07, Clinton Gormley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it reasonable to serve your static

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-18 Thread Perrin Harkins
On 4/18/07, Denis Banovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to configure Perlbal so there is no single point of failure? That sort of high-availability setup is beyond the scope of an application-level load balancer like Perlbal. You need to use something that allows for IP takeover.

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote: On 4/18/07, Denis Banovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to configure Perlbal so there is no single point of failure? That sort of high-availability setup is beyond the scope of an application-level load balancer like Perlbal.

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-17 Thread Clinton Gormley
switch to a lightweight proxy + httpd on port 80. i like nginx because its had much fewer critical bugs than lighttpd. others like lighty. either will be fine - they'll free up apache to deal with content generation and you'll see a ginormous performance boost off that . you

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-17 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:55 AM, Clinton Gormley wrote: Must disagree with you about pound http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ index_html being a PITA to configure and maintain. Pound is really easy to configure, fast as all hell, and just never goes down. I've been using it for about 3 years now and

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-17 Thread Perrin Harkins
On 4/17/07, Clinton Gormley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it reasonable to serve your static files from a mod_perl server, as long as you have a proxy/pound/squid in front? Yes, but spending no time in mod_perl for a static file is better than spending a little time, and the files will be served

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-17 Thread Frank Wiles
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:48:57 -0400 Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/17/07, Clinton Gormley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it reasonable to serve your static files from a mod_perl server, as long as you have a proxy/pound/squid in front? Yes, but spending no time in mod_perl for a

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-17 Thread Rafael Caceres
and start the growing up process. I am looking for next steps to growing up from this machine. Can somebody recommend a good article, presentation or document that advocates various strategies to growing up the current architecture (i.e. basic load balancing, network topology, switches, etc

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-17 Thread Perrin Harkins
On 4/17/07, Rafael Caceres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a consideration, regarding using a proxy or a different server, that has not been brought up: If there is mod_perl based access control for the static files, then it's basically impossible not to go through a mod_perl server to serve

Growing Up

2007-04-16 Thread Will Fould
Hi, I have a service that is currently running a basic LAMP stack with mod_perl and life has been good! The site running has been getting very busy and I've ordered a second machine with intention to move the database off that machine and start the growing up process. I am looking for next

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-16 Thread Frank Wiles
that machine and start the growing up process. I am looking for next steps to growing up from this machine. Can somebody recommend a good article, presentation or document that advocates various strategies to growing up the current architecture (i.e. basic load balancing, network topology

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-16 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
and start the growing up process. I am looking for next steps to growing up from this machine. Can somebody recommend a good article, presentation or document that advocates various strategies to growing up the current architecture (i.e. basic load balancing, network topology, switches, etc

Re: Growing Up

2007-04-16 Thread Perrin Harkins
On 4/16/07, Will Fould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for next steps to growing up from this machine. Can somebody recommend a good article, presentation or document that advocates various strategies to growing up the current architecture (i.e. basic load balancing, network topology