Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:55:39 +0100 From: Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-hardware@webteckies.org> To: FreeBSD-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for Dual-CPU systems Message-ID: <200401070055.40011.freebsd-hardware@webteckies.org> In-Reply-To: <20040106221118.GB85049@pasternak.w.lub.pl> References: <200401062350.26773.freebsd-hardware@webteckies.org> <20040106221118.GB85049@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tuesday 06 January 2004 23:11, you wrote: > Melvyn Sopacua [Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:50:22PM +0100]: > > The reason for the dual CPU is that we want to be able to host more per > > machine, to reduce maintenance. We have done some orientation and > > experience with ASUS boards, but the results are very variable. > > I'd rather consider using 1-CPU machines (cheaper, less trouble) with some > load-balancer (scalability). Perhaps. It would mean, that for every site there should be two instances and two DNS entries etc. My worries for the next 2/3 years is not only volume per site, but also more sites. Some sites consists of 20 files max and are totally dynamic, so a restore from backup or even weekly tarball is easily setup on a second machine if one machine fails. If traffic does shoot up fast, then there is new budget :). The larger sites have more media, like screenshots. We're talking > 2GB of images and growing for our games site and there are plans for more multimedia/image-heavy sites. Even with rsync, this takes time to sync and a much more suitable solution is a stripped down apache geared towards serving images (keep-alive, mod_headers, mod_expire) and prolly an inbound squid. For our main site, I'm already considering load-balancing in a simple round-robin, because it has doubled traffic over the last year and is still growing, but I'd rather have one copy of a site to worry about. Or maybe I should think about a NAS solution... -- Melvyn ======================================================= FreeBSD sarevok.webteckies.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3: Tue Dec 30 14:31:47 CET 2003 root@sarevok.idg.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAREVOK_NOAPM_NODEBUG i386 ======================================================= [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/+0r7Ov9JNmfFN5URAoQFAJ4uTVLsT1AKq5ShFDLO5ST2aejulwCffAK4 QBIHzDZQqk1AKrqhAKMLI70= =bC89 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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