From owner-freebsd-small Thu Sep 17 10:19:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16498 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vip.consys.com (Comobabi.ConSys.COM [209.141.107.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16463 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: (from pinyon@localhost) by vip.consys.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA12662 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:18:54 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:18:54 -0700 (MST) From: "Russell L. Carter" Message-Id: <199809171718.KAA12662@vip.consys.com> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: using picoBSD to get big. Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So what if you took a couple of these motherboards that support 1GB of memory, booted picoBSD on them, copied your web partition from a reliable source (some sort of raid) to an MFS, copied your MySQL databases to another MFS (possibly the same), and then used the reverse proxy patched Apache http://www.webtechniques.com/features/1998/05/engelschall/engelschall.shtml to distribute the load between the two (or more. Of course the reverse proxy could be a smaller system, running picoBSD. No disk drives. Transparent redundancy. This looks to work nice for serving static (database) content, but I don't see an elegant way to commit dynamic database content back to the RAID. Any ideas? This has got possibilities for "Beowulf" style clusters too. Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message