Re: how to decrease serverload easily?

http://conf.php.net/pres/slides/intro/tshirt.php?si=30&text=php That doesn't work, Its in the imlib2 section :D and i wanted to see a pic with php logo on it :D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> To: "Martin Lindhe" <martin@humany.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:32 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] how to decrease serverload easily? > > We're developing a web platform based on PHP, running under Apache. We have > > realized that we need a way of "split up" the serverload to multiple > > machines if it gets too high. We've come up with PHP solutions to the > > problem but are looking for better ones, especially in Apache configuration. > > Is there any easy way of doing this? Anyone have previous experience? > > > > Software versions and OS'es is of no concern, we'll use what's required. > > Have a look at http://conf.php.net/sdphp and have a look at > slides 46 > through 48. > > Basically, I would suggest a Squid reverse proxy as a front-end to your > system. Have it use a redirector like SquidGuard to distribute requests > across multiple backend web servers, and if you need to distribute your > database load as well, set up a single master mysql server which > replicates to read-only servers on each of the load balanced Apache > servers. And if you are getting really crazy traffic, you could round > robin across multiple frontend squid servers. But I would be very > surprised if you are doing anything that is getting that much traffic. > > How many hits per second are you expecting? > > -Rasmus > > > -- > 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 >