List, I currently have a client that serves files and images on other websites. They get around 8M-9Million image views per day with anywhere from 1 to 3Million of them being unique views, so each file might be viewed anywhere from once per day to some upwards of 5k times per day. Their present system is getting highly overloaded and I'm looking for methods to accelerate this.
They presently serve on Linux 2.4.18-4smp from Redhat 7.3, Apache 1.3.X, dual 1.8Ghz Xeons, 2Gigs RAM and a 3Ware ATA 100 RAID controller with Four 80Gig 7200RPM ATA100 Drives in a RAID 5 array (1 hot spare) The two options I'm looking at are either to make this sytem a 'file server' for a bank of web servers, or as the central webserver for a bank of caching proxy servers. Each of the two Servers each have one 2.4Ghz processor, 2GB RAM and one 18Gig Ultra160 10K RPM SCSI Drives. (the hardware was already purchased by the client and awaiting deployment.) Would they see better performance by installing an updated apache on each server and having them NFS Mount the main server and read files directly over NFS and serve the files themselves, incling all CGI's and such? Or would it be better to use both of these with Squid (or another proxy server, open-sourced) to cache commonly requested files and have the current server continue to be the core webserver? My initial thought is that they should invest in a SCSI RAID Controller, some 36Gig or 72Gig Ultra 160 15K RPM SCSI Drives and move all data over to it and see if their problem is file seek latency, but as they've already invested in this new hardware, I'd like to be able to utilize it first before pushing them to this other option. Has anyone ever done something as this and if so, can they share their experiences and something that can be done to speed the system up? Thanks! william ------------------------ANNOUNCEMENT----------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ISPCON Spring 2003 April 23-25, Baltimore, MD www.ispcon.com The Definitive Event for all wired and wireless service providers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ____________ The ISP-CACHING Discussion List ___________ To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-caching/archives/
