Re: Managing upload files in multiple servers(pawns)

Thanks Duncan, thanks for the suggestions, I will try them and come back.. Please suggest me if you know any file synchronization tools over different servers other than rsync. I like if syncronization triggers immediately after uploading the file automatically rather than using cron. Thanks, S.Srinadh. On 12/31/05, Duncan Hill <dhill+php@cricalix.net> wrote: > > On Saturday 31 December 2005 02:06, Srinadh Sannidhanam wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > We have a site in php and two web servers(pawns) to balance the load. > > There is a page in the site through which user can upload images. > > > > When a user uploads an image, the request goes to only one of the two > > servers. > > So the image will be uploaded to only one server. > > Use a shared file system such as NFS for upload storage. > > Use some form of session management/balancing that ensures a client > browser > that upload ends up on the same server immediately afterwards, and use > something like rsync to keep the image area in sync. > > Shared storage is probably the better bet - perhaps with clever code that > tries a local disk first, then the shared storage if not found on > local. If > found shared and not local, pull to local. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >