I am told hardware load balancers are extremely expensive. Is this true? Do you just replicate your test servers and your development servers?
Dont people insist on hardware failover precautions (and developers wish for nice software failover precautions)? > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:13:06 -0800 > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: clustering, multiple instances and application design > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > > > On Feb 7, 3:15 pm, "Barry Beattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in our business, we do partnership deals with other organisations who > > we license resources to and then finalise their output on their behalf > > on our IT systems. we're looking at providing the tools for our > > partners to logon and use to complete the middle part of the process. > > There's about 20-30 partners. These "tools" will never be outside our > > control (ie not on partners servers) and won't be individually > > customised outside some basic settings (no forking of the code) > > ....snip...8<... > > Why can't you run multiple applications under a single ColdFusion > instance? > > Seems like you could have x number of applications on a single > instance, and replicate this y number of times across physical > servers. > > Also, if you are load balancing at the front end, there is no reason > to cluster instances at all. Modern load balancers will stick users > to a single server instance, your only issue in the event of a server > failure is forcing the user to re-establish their session; for > example, having to log back in. > > -- geoff > http://www.daemon.com.au/ > > _________________________________________________________________ What are you waiting for? Join Lavalife FREE http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale%3Den%5FAU%26a%3D30288&_t=764581033&_r=email_taglines_Join_free_OCT07&_m=EXT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
