Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:41:41 -0400 From: "agent dero" <dero@bluhayz.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-net Digest, Vol 13, Issue 6 Message-ID: <20030621203103.M9576@bluhayz.org> In-Reply-To: <20030621190121.DA36437B405@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20030621190121.DA36437B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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I am re-organizing my company's network, albeit a small one, but it is still very very important. I run a small webhosting company, and I am rebuilding the LAN with the idea of expandibility. the LAN Diagram is here http://www.bluhayz.org/~dero/overall_lan.png (I apologize for PNG, but that's how AppleWorks wanted to save it.) Anyways, I am wondering about overall network performance, given that our net connection isn't higher than 45Mbps (burstable connection, yay!) (All machines are running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE) The plan is to store all user directories, i.e. web sites, on the NFS disk server, equipped with a gazillion disk drives, all with RAID0+1, and simply running NFS (and of course SSH) Then the FTP server(1), the web servers(2 at current point in time) and then somewhere in the future, the MySQL servers will all have data stored on the NFS server. In addition, the overall workload will be spread across the web servers, using BIND's round-robin capability. Note: I am planning on upgrading to Gigabit sometime soon. The question being, how will this network perform, I realize there will be increased network traffic, but the two things I am worried about, are overall added latency, and plausibility, i.e. before I buy more hardware, will this work! The biggest toss-up is the tradeoff between a couple ms of latency, and expandibility. According to this current diagram, all we need to do to add a new server to help releive load is to add a new Web Server, and configure it in the BIND configuration files, and get it to use the NFS server. Help is not only needed, but appreciated. thanks!
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