When you load balance, you upload content to both servers?

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  • xlogger
    Confirmed User
    • Jul 2004
    • 9507

    #1

    When you load balance, you upload content to both servers?

    Lets say i am load balancing on 3 servers - do you upload content to all 3 servers?

    How does it work, anyone here know?

    Thanks

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  • xanx
    Confirmed User
    • Apr 2002
    • 3711

    #2
    kinda,

    setup a share so that all machines draw the content from one drive or machine. Understand ?

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    • xlogger
      Confirmed User
      • Jul 2004
      • 9507

      #3
      Originally posted by xanx
      kinda,

      setup a share so that all machines draw the content from one drive or machine. Understand ?
      Make a seprate drive and upload there and then make the other servers get stuff from that drive? Sounds really complicated. My host is configing all the stuff (im just waiting for a quote now actually), but i was just woundering how all this worked.

      What kind of load balancing do you do on your site? Software, dns or hardware?

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      • xanx
        Confirmed User
        • Apr 2002
        • 3711

        #4
        I use a combo of all actually lol..

        I don't know what setup you have in mind but what most do is make the upload utility point to a certian HD or server then the download script draws from that same area. You can hire a programmer to set this all up for under 500.00 it's fairly common.

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        • BradM
          Confirmed User
          • Dec 2003
          • 3397

          #5
          Have one server share the content real time. Your host should be setting it up for you so you just worry about uploading and your machines will mirror real time

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          • RazorSharpe
            Confirmed User
            • Aug 2001
            • 2238

            #6
            I use hardware based loadbalancing and basically I upload all content to one server (NFS). None of the frontend servers have any content on them - they draw this from the NFS.

            xanx - can you icq me mate - 125483218

            ...
            Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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            • xanx
              Confirmed User
              • Apr 2002
              • 3711

              #7
              i don't have ICQ I can't stand it,

              you can email me at [email protected] if you want.

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              • davidd
                Confirmed User
                • Jul 2003
                • 1076

                #8
                Originally posted by xlogger
                Lets say i am load balancing on 3 servers - do you upload content to all 3 servers?

                How does it work, anyone here know?

                Thanks

                Something has to be done to keep the content sync'd. The best way is to upload it to one server, then rsync the content changes to the other machines.

                Do not get into the NFS mounting game, as the point of load balancing is to lose a machine and no traffic is affected.

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                • BradM
                  Confirmed User
                  • Dec 2003
                  • 3397

                  #9
                  Originally posted by davidd
                  Something has to be done to keep the content sync'd. The best way is to upload it to one server, then rsync the content changes to the other machines.

                  Do not get into the NFS mounting game, as the point of load balancing is to lose a machine and no traffic is affected.
                  yeah... exactly what I was trying to get at... you got it

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