Issac Goldstand wrote: > For what it's worth, I use SVN with isolated dev sandboxes working with > trunk (or some branch). The production boxes have a webroot for staging > (for detecting anything that might happen to manage to work differently > in sandbox and production) and live sites. Each root is an svn copy, > and there's a simple GUI to update either to a given tag in the > repository.
This is similar to the way Linux From Scratch manages their site(s). I also use svn repositories to handle my site work. The version control aspect makes it very simple to keep a site current, and running a svn co in a script when I need to update a live site is a simple update process. Jaqui > Issac > > Peter Milanese wrote: >> Greetings- >> >> I am coming up with ideas for building a new farm. We currently >> run CF and Apache on a bunch of decent sized boxes, headed by a set of >> F5's. We have an isolated Dev Environment. The current framework for >> putting stuff into production is homegrown, and in need of an >> overhaul, I just want to see if there is something out there to >> assist, or if our model is wrong at this point. We do a bit over a >> billion hits per annum. Now, I would like to brainstorm architectural >> changes. >> >> Workflow as it is now: >> >> Developer works on dedicated dev server-> >> >> Developer goes to web interface in order to select items to go into >> production (php/rsync) -> >> >> Submit process "stages" selected files (copies them into a local >> heirarchy) -> >> >> Cron syncs that local "staging area" to the production servers. >> >> >> >> >> How do larger organizations do this? >> How are uploads handled? >> Shared storage? >> >> >> I think I'm just looking for other ideas. >> >> Any input would be great. >> >> Thanks >> P >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
