Re: [MediaWiki-l] Load balancing web servers and multimedia content

I think my explanation was not the clearest it could have been. Let's say for the moment that I have one wiki. That wiki is served by a load balancer in front of a server farm consisting of four Apache vhosts, one per physical server, each with its own copy of MediaWiki, LocalSettings.php, etc. Thus, a request for say http://wiki.domain.com/wiki/Main_Page (and thus all of its included images, css, js, etc.) is actually distributed by the load balancer across the four vhosts. Each of the four physical hosts NFS mounts the same shared directory from the single NFS server so that all four Apache vhosts have simultaneous read-write access to the same uploaded multimedia content. In case that description is missing your point, I'll add that I do indeed rsync the NFS server's shared directory to another server nightly (I could easily shorten that interval), which in turn gets rsynced to an offsite server. So the NFS server is a single point of failure, but I do have both local and remote copies of the uploaded content. My desire is for increased reliability of that backend fileserver. Does that answer your question or am I still missing your point? :) Justin On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387(a)gmail.com> wrote: