Re: Clustering with PHP4?

First of all, your choice of language doesn't have anything to do with web clustering. I can't give details as to our configuration (for many reasons), but I can say that with tools such as - The Linux High Availability project http://www.linuxha.org/ - Linux virtual server http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ a completely opensource highly available server farm is totally possible and being done -- I would know, I'm doing it. I'm not sure, but I think linux.com may be using a similar setup -- and they might share their configuration. Tools such as Linux virtual server can handle multiple clusters of different services. Using Linux virtual server means that each service highly available and clustered. Another option could be DNS round robin. I'm sure there are others. You might want to read a little about multi-tiered (or three tier) web site infrastructure to get a basic idea how to do something like this. If you choose to not go with opensource solutions, you can get a similar solution from a number of other vendors (Cisco, F5 networks, others I'm sure) -- they just cost a little (lot!) more. -jeremy brand _______________________________________________________________________ GnuPG Fingerprint: 9F5E 95E0 1CC2 E054 84EA 6099 8ACD 9DBA D2C0 5EA9 _ http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more __ On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Kit Plummer wrote: > Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 12:51:17 +0900 > From: Kit Plummer <kit@aviansportal.com> > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Clustering with PHP4? > > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > 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 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >