[Techtalk] Server Deployment

[James]

Any suggestions for hardware specs on these machines?  It would be two
web servers and two SQL servers (master, slave).  Primarily going for
"bang for the buck" as we're facing the economic ripple effect (aka ****
flows down hill).

- James



> -----Original Message-----
> From: techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org 
> [mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org] On Behalf Of Jenn Vesperman
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 8:16 PM
> To: James
> Cc: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Server Deployment
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 07:47, James wrote:
> > Question:
> > 
> > We're deploying our new inhouse web based application suite in the 
> > Fall. The issue has come up in my head of how to deploy our servers.
> > 
> > Do we really need a separate MySQL server (ie, separate web 
> and SQL)? 
> > Right now, the development machine has Apache and MySQL on the same 
> > box. Does it really increase performance (or only under 
> high loads)?  
> > What are your thoughts of MySQL server replication?
> 
> If SQL and Apache are frequently trying to serve the same 
> request (or set of requests) & there are non-data-dependant 
> elements in the request, it probably WILL increase 
> performance to add a separate machine - Apache can receive 
> the request, pass the request for data off to the other 
> machine while serving the non-DB stuff, receive the data and 
> plug it in, and serve the DB stuff.
> 
> If the machine is sufficiently loaded that Apache and SQL are 
> both trying to serve requests at the same time, it'd also 
> help. Same reason.
> 
> 
> Jenn V.
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