Re: Consolidation suggestions - some LAMP servers

2008-12-10 Thread Thomas Pundt
Hi Götz, On Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2008, Götz Reinicke wrote: | My question is, what do you think about using e.g. one server as | webserver, the other as mysql server ... so the database traffic will go | across the network. So that I have only one service running on one | server and not like now

Consolidation suggestions - some LAMP servers

2008-12-09 Thread Götz Reinicke
Hi, over the last couple of years our infrastructure rose as we needed and now we are thinking about the next steps as the access to the servers grows. Currently we run a couple of Red Hat EL 5.x LAMP systems (e.g. our webserver, a webmail system, an application server) on 64 Bit hardware

Re: Consolidation suggestions - some LAMP servers

2008-12-09 Thread Steve Holmes
Götz We've been doing this for some time. Of course we have GigE internally so the network is not a problem. The biggest problem for us is making sure the students know to configure software they want to use for their web sites to use the MySQL server name rather than the default which is usually