We currently cluster our web servers and when we move to FarCry this is going to pose a problem because of the images and files uploaded via FarCry's interface (When a content manager uploads an image or file it will be uploaded to one server but not the other). Does anybody know of a way to store these files as binary objects in the FarCry database? If there is another solution to this problem we would love to hear it.
We've looked at the option of storing binaries in the DB -- but it's not a simple process.
Typically if you are in a clustered environment, associated assets like files and images can be readily shared across the cluster by synchronising the file systems using rsynch or robocopy. Alternatively you can set up a network storage device to share assets.
File synchronisation is not really that much of a burden to the cluster -- typically in most CMS scenarios the time taken to upload, edit, and approve content is much longer than the synchronisation interval. So much so that you probably only have to look at polling for synchronicity every 15 minutes or greater intervals.
-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
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