[Zope] Low Cost Linux Web cluster? How? - Performance

[Chris McDonough]

Brad,

One tool that is useful for prototyping clusters is User Mode Linux
(http://www.usermodelinux.org).  If you want to test the
functionality a cluster configuration on a single (or a couple)
boxes without the cash outlay for those machines, you can set up UML
"sandboxes" for your Zope servers and ZEO servers (and cache
servers, as necessary).  It obviously won't be as *fast* as having N
many boxes, but it can let you get the config right before you
deploy to that many machines.

HTH,

- C


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Clements" <bkc@murkworks.com>
To: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@andreas-jung.com>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Low Cost Linux Web cluster? How? - Performance


> On 9 Aug 2002 at 17:54, Andreas Jung wrote:
>
> > > We're planning to use mod_backhand (spread) or something like
it to
> > distribute web
> > > requests to ZEO clients on multiple machines..
> >
> > You should think about using Squid as reverse proxy when your
content is
> > mostly static...this will improve your performance significantly
and reduce
> > your costs for ZEO clients.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion. However none of the data is static
except a few images.
> All pages have dynamic content pulled from a database.
>
> This site is for an export brokerage company that reships packages
on common
> carriers in "the destination country". We automatically track all
shipments on all carriers
> (25+ different carriers) and present the customer with a single
uniform view of all their
> shipments, export status, charges and tracking details.
>
>
>
> Brad Clements,                bkc@murkworks.com   (315)268-1000
> http://www.murkworks.com                          (315)268-9812
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