On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 08:40:14 -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
In particular, I think that Gabriel's "artist's impression" of load balancer in front of squid in front of apache in front of mysql is the right thing to do.
Hi Jimmy,
i've looked at Squid's failover and load balancing capabilities a bit- the short story: we could do without any separate load balancer with slightly better performance and HA.
Internet |----------- Bind DNS round robin _______|______ (multiple A records) | | Squid Squid Squid Tier1 (connected with heartbeat) ___|______________|___ | | | Apache Apache Apache |___________|__________| | | MySQL MySQL
The Details about the Squid setup are on http://www.aulinx.de/oss/code/wikipedia/.
This would free resources to throw on MySQL.
Gabriel Wicke