Hello all, One of my friend is looking a way to improve availability of his web-app which is deployed on tomcat 5.0.28. He has following configuration:
Hardware: Dual Xeon 3.0 GHz, 73 GB 10K SCSI HDD, 2 GB RAM, Gigabit NIC Software: SuSE Linux 10, JDK 1.5, Tomcat 5.0.28 (Default install) His web-app has about 2000 users and his company is expecting load of 10,000 more so say about 12,000 users. Currently tomcat is handling all users flawlessly. No problem whom-so-ever. Based upon my knowledge, Tomcat is capable of handing more users then 12000. So absolutely NO need to switch application server. He and I both have 100% trust in Tomcat and we are NOT going to switch to any other application server. Now he discussed few things with me about providing high availability (and may be high throughput). So in brief, we are looking at solution that provides high availability. My questions are : 1) Do you know of any hardware/software configuration to increase high availability? 2) Does clustering helps in this situation? If yes, any reference on how to implement that? (I dont mind reading esp. when it is new to me) 3) Does Apache play any role in this improvement scenario? 4) He wants configuration like, if one server dies for any reason, second identical server should able to pick up requests and serve it. He does not mind adding hardware. How to do that? 5) Do you think load balancing may help? I mean server is pretty powerful and my friend does not mind improving hardware. 12000 is not a big number. Thank you all for reading above. Let me know your all suggestions. Regards, Dhaval __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
