> > Browsers will only make a limited number of HTTP connections to a > specific host. By using multiple hostnames, you increase the number of > concurrent connections a browser will make. It is also useful to > seperate static content from dynamic content because dynamic content > servers typically are heavy weight (Apache w/mod_perl or mod_php) > compared to static content servers (lighttpd, nginx, etc). > I didn't know about the limited connections per host. Thanks!
Regarding separating static and dynamic content servers, doesn't PerlBal pretty much act as the go-between? Perlbal gets a request for www.site.com/1.jpg, it passes the request to the PHP server. The PHP server talks to MogileFS tracker and the tracker lets the PHP server know the real file location is in whatever.site.com/abc.fid. It then sends a reproxy header to PerlBal, and PerlBal fetches the actual file from whatever.site.com/abc.fid (which happens to run lighttpd) and returns it to the client. Thus this would still allow separation of dynamic vs. static content doesn't it?
