On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Sean Corfield <[email protected]>wrote:
> +1 everything Eric said All true but again ... if you need it. :-) Not saying anything here isn't, in the abstract, true. But again in any given situation you have to balance all this out into what makes sense for your given needs. I tend to equivocate pretty heavily in discussions like this because there is no one answer, and without a lot more information it's hard to point someone in the "right" direction for them. There's just far too many questions that would need to be answered. But yes, Eric and Sean's responses are a good counter to my initial "don't worry about it unless you need to" response, and they do point out a lot of stuff you can do in this sort of setup. But I still go back to the point that you need to ask yourself what problem(s) you're trying to solve when you create any architecture. Hardware load balancer in front of multiple VMs that each run both Apache and Tomcat works great for my needs, and in my opinion there are certainly some advantages to having everything self-contained on a single server. Everything's a tradeoff. But if you have some of the concerns Eric and Sean outline then you might choose to go a different route. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
