> > Is purchasing more hardware an option? If so, buy more RAM and continue > running what you have now. It sounds like it's working, but how much more > uptime are you looking for?
Not initially, I've got to get something in the next couple weeks that is "Faster" and "won't die under load". > > But, if you want to rip and replace (or reconfigure) then my recommendation > is to do the least complicated: Invest in a "proper" load balancer, run the > web servers on physical machines, and sync or async data with clustering > software to a beefed up box that is running a VM of each physical box > (many-to-one). I'm thinking of doing a hybrid at this point. I'm going to take our services that don't need as much memory/processing power.. things like blogs or small informational sites and consolidate them to a couple servers. I may replace Xen with OpenVZ so I can host more services per machine. Right now, the bottleneck really is memory. Then I'll take the other machines and run the services without virtual machines. I can cluster them as the ibm article demonstrated. I like your idea of running a master machine with virtual servers and then syncing those to the physical machines. I'll have to look into that as I move stuff around and see if we have enough hardware to do something like that. > > I can't directly help with the load balancer (I have a distributor that > can), but can with the server hardware if the need comes up and you're not > against running Supermicro. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for your input! -Dennis /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
