Hi guys !! "If we replicate a web server and place it near as near as possible to a client then we might not require caching servers." This is a general statement and vissible for very large and popular web servers.
If a multinational company puts different web servers for different continents , its not only able to reduce the network traffic but also provides a better response time to the users.Lots of huge conpanies also doing that. But the servers should be same, that is one master(updatable) and others slave(viewable). Like the same way we configure parent and child proxies in squid. But instead of caching I am thinking direct replication between those servers to give support for a large number of users ( a country or may be more than one country). Please note: Say by using say 5000 caching servers (roughly)we are serving a country, where same web pages are cached in dfferent severs.May be two servers side by side on a same table containing the same page, solving problem but isnt it wasting resources.But one replicated server of a particular website could handle the same situation, but ofcourse only for that web site. How can squid and apache can technically help me to support this idea.Mainly to support replicating web doucuments with in web servers not caching. Please share your ideas. Thanks Somraj
