wouldnt that make this a perfect world,,,
we gave some thought to that very question, and concluded that
clustering is the best solution, we are working on a freeVSD cluster
addon, it seems that the vsd protocols do not like to coexist in a
cluster.
>
> "Kevin Druet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> % No you have not missed anything, the point I was trying to make
was
> % that not every customer is going to be a "heavy hitter" distribute
them
> % appropriately....
>
>
> Ok... Suppose that I have several racks of boxes doing stuff.
> And as we know what various virtual servers load's will vary
> dramatically. So some systems are going to develop hot spots.
>
> IE, places where lots of the virtuals on those machines have started
> to be active.
>
> is there any easy way to redistribute servers from one box to
another?
>
> IE, if I have two vsd boxes, where one has a light load and the other
> has a heavy load, is there a way to pick up and move a virtual to
> a different box in a way that works?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Kevin Druet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> %
> %
> % > > I think that alot of you are thinking that the VS's are going
to
> % get alot
> % > > of hits, well this is just simply not the case,
> % >
> % > why is it not the case? something special about VS's that stops
them
> % getting
> % > hits? You get a customer who's virtual hosting account gets 5gb
a
> % month and
> % > he buys a VS he's still doing 5gb a month or am I missing
something
> % here?
> % >
> % No you have not missed anything, the point I was trying to make
was
> % that not every customer is going to be a "heavy hitter" distribute
them
> % accordingly and there wont be any trouble.
> %
> % We have high traffic high usage customers, and they pay for a 1U
> % server, we see the small clients as perfect for FreeVSD, as we can
pack
> % quite a few onto one system...
> %
> % the majority of our VS customers do not use SQL at all, only the
fp
> % server extensions, our server load is quite low,,,
> %
> % I find great satisfaction in the statement regarding the 9 am
email
> % pick up,, I thought I was the only one who sweats bullets every
morning
> % for an hour....
> %
> %
> % > > My larger customers, are in the range of about 1500 hits per
month
> % and
> % > > about 2000 emails per month spread over 10 to 20 users.
> % >
> % > trust me these are not large customers - our large customers get
> % 1500+ an
> % > hour - here is last weeks hits for what we would class an
average to
> % high
> % > customer
> % > (who also runs a medium size mysql database)
> % >
> % > Overall Accesses (hits) 84,555
> % > Bytes 477,212,020
> % > Visits 13,288
> % >
> % > we also have those sites getting less than 100 a month usually
these
> % > sites don't renew anywhere they just go offline when there year
is up
> % >
> % > > I seem to think that you all who think that 10 virtuals per
server
> % is too
> % > > much are still running windows,, remember this, unused CPU is
> % wasted CPU.
> % >
> % > And rightly so..10 VS's 'could' be too many - we have a server
with
> % just 8
> % > virtual accounts, all together the server pushes out over 80gig -
and
> % a mix
> % > of applications perl/mysql/etc I wouldn't want a thousand of
these on
> % one
> % > server - we tend to measure our servers on traffic throughput
because
> % we
> % > have found it pretty much directly relates to cpu if you
carefully
> % > mix/juggle your app sites with your low hit html sites - and
believe
> % me we
> % > don't run windows and we do have wasted cpu to cover the rush
hour
> % >
> % > I would suggest it depends who your target market is - I
certainly
> % wouldn't
> % > want
> % > 1500 of our average sites on one server - the 9am e-mail pick-up
rush
> % would
> % > be real fun if we did
> % >
> % > Gary
> % >
> % >
> % >
> % >
> % >
> % >
> %
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