Re: Clustering with PHP4?

Clustering/load-balancing and failover should not be part of a scripting language. This is something that needs to be handled at a much lower level. You might do it with some sort of http redirector box in front of a farm of web servers. It should not matter which web server is serving up your dynamic content. The only real scripting-level requirement is that you do not do anything that is specific to a single web server in your scripts. That means storing session data in some sort of shared datastore like a database (which is easy to do with PHP). It is a non-issue as far as I am concerned. -Rasmus On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Kit Plummer wrote: > Just finished reading an interesting article comparing ColdFusion, ASP, > Tomcat and PHP. One of the knocks against PHP was the fact the clustering > with PHP was relatively uncharted. Is this true? I know there has to be > people out there with multiple servers running single sites. > > I am interested in hearing your stories if you are running a single site on > multiple servers. I am especially interested in load-balancing and > failover...so if you have any knowledge to pass, please do. > > Regards, > > Kit Plummer > kit@aviansportal.com