Sergej Kandyla schrieb: > > Hi, > apache is good as backend server for dynamic applications. > You could use something like nginx, haproxy as frontend for balancing > multiple backend servers. > I'm using nginx. This light web server could serve many thousand > concurrent connections! It works great! > > look at > http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxLoadBalanceExample > http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/08/25/haproxy-load-balancer/lang/en/ > http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/05/18/nginx-as-reverse-proxy/lang/en/ > and http://highscalability.com/ > > Yup. NGINX is probably the fastest way to serve content nowadays. But content has to be static and be available as a file (AFAIK) directly to NGINX. There's also "varnish", if you can't meet the above provision easily. > Another issue is keeping content synchronizing between apache servers. > There are several solutions: NAS\SAN or programbased DRBD > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRBD. > Or GFS, if one is into this sort of stuff... But a NAS is much less complex to debug ;-) Rainer