Hi, Mace Eliason schrieb: > 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? For a customer of ours we're managing a dedicated cluster with about 10.000.000 Hits/Day hitting the webservers (currently 5 running CentOS/LAMP). Loadbalancing is done by a set of reverse squid's acting as caches for static content also (round about 70% of all hits are handled by squid without bothering the webservers). We're quite happy with this setup at the moment. By now Database-Load is handled by only one DB-Server (with manual failover). > [...] > 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. In my opinion this is only a matter of negotiation with your hosting company - but sure this is dependent on how much control you want to have ;-) -- Greetings from "good old germany" Michael Metz **************************************************** SpeedPartner GmbH Neukirchener Str. 57, 41470 Neuss Tel.: 02137 / 91666-2, Fax: 02137 / 91666-1 E-Mail: info at speedpartner.de ****************************************************