Re: how to do cloud computing with php

Rene Veerman wrote:

Hi.. As a way to take a few steps back from the kinda heated "when will php grow up and support threading" thread, i'm requesting you people list how you scale from 1 server to many servers; what's called cloud computing. In particular, i'm interested in how to set up an application that deals with great amounts of input from many 3rd-party servers, and say a million concurrent viewers who need html calculated from those input streams. So this goes beyond 1 mysql server, and beyond 1 php server. Let's hear it, coz quite frankly i have my doubts about php's ability to scale to cloud computing.

Multiple PHP boxes with local databases carrying the slowly changing data, only accessing the main database 'cloud' for real time data. Many financial institutions around the world use this arrangement without any problems. The data is replicated around the network and locally served up for each branch of the tree. You don't need all one million users looking to one point on the network? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php