Geoff Talvola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For my use of Webware, a single box is more than enough horsepower. But > suppose I had to scale up to 2 or more boxes to handle the load and/or for > redundancy. How would I do it with Webware? For that matter, how is it > typically done with other systems like IIS with Active Server Pages or Java > Servlets? Is there some sort of front-end hardware or software that > distributes the requests evenly to the different web servers?
Well, you could use the poor-man's load balancing -- just redirect new visitors to the box they should use. I.e., www.whatever.com (and whatever.com) point to a front-end box that does nothing but immediately redirect the user to www1.whatever.com, www2.whatever.com, etc. Users will then always go to the same server from that point on in their session, so you don't need to share sessions. Of course, there's also an advantage to caching the output as well, which a more intelligent load-balancer could do. It seems plausible that Webware could cache its output on its own fairly efficiently, though, though you'd still get the adapter overhead. Maybe the adapter could cache the output... Ian _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
