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Originally Posted by BigBen
Curious why you need 11 servers for < 100k traffic?...
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Actually there are 12, but 1 remains for me ;-)
first of all half of the sites are text tgp's the other half thumb tgp's/mgp's, but only about 1/2 of the sites are developed so far.
Here how it's managed:
1 Server for Cropping and Backup of the Galleries
1 MyQsl Server
1 Thumb Server
8 Servers for the Thumb Sites with average about 24 Sites on it
1 Server for the Text Sites as these don't eat much resources
If you have made Thumb Sites you will see that too many Thumb Sites on a single Server and crash it while updating. Most of the TGP/MGP Sites have up to 100 Archive pages which are also generated while updating and that eats resources. As the servers are owned by my own i pay only US$ 50 for the managed co-location hosting, so other than the entire investement it's not a big deal at all.
The other thing, as mentioned already is to have them not all on the same IP/Server for SE reasons. If i remember right 260+ IP's are used for the network, but i really don't remember exactly how much.