[BlueOnyx:13685] Re: Load balanced BO's

[Richard Morgan]

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Sent: 13 September 2013 16:31
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:13682] Re: Load balanced BO's

Hi George,
On 9/13/2013 10:16 AM, George F. Nemeyer wrote:
> A quick and dirty way to spread the load would be to mirror the site 
> onto a second box, using rsync to keep the two sets of content 
> identical, then just provide the IPs of both boxes in the DNS setup 
> for the site.  The DNS would hand out alternate IPs, so each box 
> should see about half the requests.  This could also spread the 
> traffic as well as provide redundancy over two links, if you have multiple
feeds.

For a static site, this could be true.   However, you will really start 
to see some issues when it comes to dynamic sites using a MySQL 
database.   Sure, there are ways around that, but with the overhead that 
you're creating by keeping the db's replicated, are you still coming out 
ahead by leveraging the 2nd system?   Are you confident that the 
database activities aren't too fragile?

There are good load-balancing options available.  Citrix maintains a
presence with us and I've been impressed with some of their commercial
offerings.  But I'm not convinced I would factor BlueOnyx into any of 
the equations.   It wasn't meant to do it, and although you can kludge 
it together, that doesn't mean you necessarily should.    That's just 
one man's opinion, of course.  ;)

Good thought Chris, why not go live on one powerful server - it may very
well have teething problems to sort out anyway, so why have load balancing
and/or replication to worry about too.

If the site does indeed get busy, you'll then be able to expand the
infrastructure knowing where the bottlenecks are: static files, MySQL,
script complexity, bandwidth, etc.

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