[BlueOnyx:13684] Re: Load balanced BO's

[Richard Sidlin]

Thanks again Chris. A few things to think about.

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> Subject: [BlueOnyx:13683] Re: Load balanced BO's
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> Hi Richard,
> 
> On 9/13/2013 9:39 AM, Richard Sidlin wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> lighttpd wasn't all that difficult to get running.   You just set the
> daemon up, configure what content you want served, then tell Apache by
> setting up a proxy.  Some amount of trial & error may be necessary in
order
> to achieve the results you're looking for. We used a bit of a "special
sauce"
> for our customer that has been proven to be very reliable and resilient to
> BlueOnyx's updates and so forth.
> 
> That said, keep an eye on the load on the box.   I'm not sure what your
> bandwidth commit is on that box or what you have available, but my guess
is
> you're going to see your network start to bottleneck before the box
chokes.
> The 5320 was a good proc.  You could bump the RAM on the box.
> 10GB is sort of an odd place to be... and the RAM isn't that expensive
> right now.   Beyond that, be sure you're keeping an eye on your MySQL.
> Are the tables indexed?  You'll probably want that...   Just some
thoughts.
> 
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