Mace Eliason wrote: > Hi, > > We are starting a new project, and are trying to decide the best way > to proceed. We want to setup a LAMP configuration using Centos, > something we have been doing in the past with great success. > > The question is load balancing. We antisipate the potential for the > system to receive 500,000 requests/ day with in the next year. We > want to plan for that extra load now as we start the project. What > would you suggest for setups for multiple servers for redundancy and > load balancing? > > I have setup MySQL replication and that works fine but what about the > rest of the system. I know it is quite simple to setup with windows > 2003 server. > > Would a cluster be the way to go? Ideally we would like 2-? severs > setup that are all identical and sharing the load as need be, and if > one fails users would notice nothing. > > I have also thought of just looking for a hosting company that offers > load balancing servers and not worry about it but we like to have > control. > > Thanks for any suggestions Perhaps this will help get you started: http://www.howtoforge.com/high_availability_loadbalanced_apache_cluster Cheers,