Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 00:36:09 +0200 (CEST) From: N <niels@bakker.net> To: Deepwell Internet <freebsd@deepwell.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetApp servers Message-ID: <9910080030530.6647-100000@liquid.tpb.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991007152026.02f2f9d0@mail1.dcomm.net>
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Deepwell Internet wrote: > Can anyone point me to good documentation of building highly scalable web > servers or mail servers? I'd like to explore some different designs and > look at how they scale and increase reliability. One scenario is to store usernames in an LDAP database with a MySQL backend, and change all end user-facing software to not use getpwnam() but query the LDAP server instead. Write a PHP3 frontend to the MySQL database and you have a very robust system. We're actually converting some of our setup to something similar to this. With PAM you can use whatever authentication system you want, provided there is a PAM module for it and you PAMify the application. One very large advantage of this is that you can use this on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. auth_radius may be useful as an alternative to the situation outlined above. > I noticed that Geocities offers all user pages at > www.geocities.com/~username. How do you suppose they are implementing > this? A large Sun box or two with NFS? I guess more than two boxes because them eedjits mark all content served as uncacheable. -- Niels. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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