On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Justin Karneges < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 05 May 2008 9:04 am, Eric Th wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > XMPP defines multi-server communication for cross domain scenario, > > What about multi-machine for single domain scenario, Or is this just a > > problem of various server implemetations? > > A single XMPP domain can be scaled across many machines. All the major > XMPP > server implementations support this. However, there is no standard > protocol > for communication between machines in a single-domain scenario. This means > if you are clustering many machines for a single domain, you cannot mix and > match server types (e.g. you can't have ejabberd on one node and Openfire > on > another node), but I don't think anyone really considers this a problem. > > -Justin > Would there any measurable advantage of having Openfire or whatever nodes in a cluster of ejabberd nodes? Clustering is rather complex software scenario where the servers need to interact in high performance and reliably to guarantee high quality service. The implementations need to be optimized to work together which might get quite hard for different server architecture designs and implementation environments. Tobias
