[BlueOnyx:13680] Re: Load balanced BO's

[Richard Sidlin]

Thanks Chris. Great advice. I think they may be hoping that they are going
to be the next Amazon! I will look into lighttpd as that sounds interesting.
Is it easy to setup?

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-
> bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet
> Sent: 13 September 2013 15:00
> To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:13679] Re: Load balanced BO's
> 
> On 9/13/2013 8:44 AM, Richard Sidlin wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > We have just installed a dedicated BO server for a client. They seem
> > to think that they will see demand in excess of one server. We
> > installed it on a Quad Core XEON L5320 with 10GB RAM on 5108R.
> 
> Well, that greatly depends on the traffic, the construction of the site,
and any
> underlying optimization that has gone on.  There are really a lot of
variables
> to be considered - too many to give the yes/no answer you're probably
> looking for.
> 
> I have one customer system in front of me right now that is responsible
for a
> single site that generates roughly 45Mbps of throughput during peak times,
> and around 15Mbps off-peak.  That server operates with less power and
> RAM than the system you mention, and it never has any issues.
>    Something we did was install lighttpd on the box and serve the static
> content with it (via proxy) and continue to have Apache handle the heavy
> lifting on dynamic content.   If that's "cheating," then so be it.  ;)
> 
> > Question is, how many roughly could access the one site that is on
> > this server at the same time? If we need to go beyond that, is there
> > an easy way to set up a cluster?
> 
> You can use Aventurin{e} to easily set up clustering, but it's failover
> clustering, not load balancing.
> 
> IMO, BlueOnyx is not what you want to be using if you're setting up
> multi-server clusters for performance.   BlueOnyx is ideally suited as a
> hosting appliance.  That is it's goal in life and is what it's DNA is
> specifically coded to do.    Your customer's thought process aside for a
> moment, before I started looking into clusters and so forth, I'd be
looking
> into things such as performance-tuning MySQL for the specific site, the
> possibility of utilizing a lightweight http proxy, or even leveraging a
CDN if
> need be.  Cobbling together a load-balancing BlueOnyx installation seems
like
> more trouble than it's worth to me.
> 
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