We're using a two-node CAS server with memcached to handle about 50K
users.   We have plenty of capacity left over.  If I remember (or someone
reminds me) I can see if I can gather our authentication/seconds or
authentication/minute stats.  I'm not at my desk now so I'll have to do it
tomorrow.

Cheers,
Scott


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Rolly Ferolino <[email protected]> wrote:

> Marvin,
>
> Thank you for the reply. Would you mind sharing your cluster configuration?
> We are testing our installation on a four-node Tomcat cluster, using JBOSS
> Cache to replicate the TicketRegistry. We are planning to serve 80K users
> and I am concern right now on how much users and how many nodes this setup
> can scale to. Any clustering war stories from the community will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Rolly Ferolino
> University of Phoenix
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Marvin Addison 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> > What is the best practice for hosting the SSL certificate?
>>
>> There's no best practice here.  If you want to leverage the SSL
>> offloading capabilities of your load balancing hardware, host the
>> certificate on the LB and forward the request to a non-SSL port on the
>> application server.  If you feel the SSL handling capability of your
>> LB is negligibly better than your application servers, host the
>> certificate on each app server.  I would argue there may be a security
>> risk in the first scenario since you are trusting the network behind
>> your LB, but this is a reasonable assumption in many cases.
>>
>> I should note that we think SSL offloading is largely vendor snake oil
>> and we like the ability to control our app server configuration,
>> including SSL handling, instead of having to cooperate with our LB
>> admins for the SSL setup.  (They're great, it's just that we have
>> adopted a strategy of "keep the LB stupid" which has worked well for
>> us.  Additionally our "big iron" ServerIron devices only recently got
>> the SSL offloading working to the satisfaction of our LB admins.
>> YMMV.)
>>
>> M
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