[ic] load balancing

[Ed LaFrance]

At 08:38 AM 11/27/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>At 07:25 AM 11/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>well, here is few questions :)
>>1- Can i have the main server on one physical server and have my customers
>>catalogs on diferent servers physical servers or do I neeed to have
>>interchange server on each physical server?
>
>Yes - the INET mode for catalogs along with a few interchange.cfg entries 
>will allow you to do this.

I need to clarify - INET mode was designed to allow the catalog(s) and 
interchange to reside on a different physical server than http. That is a 
somewhat different case than what you were inquiring about, but it still 
allows for significant work distribution. With dbms like mysql which allow 
remote connections, it is also a simple matter to have your db reside on 
yet another physical machine, further distributing the workload.

- Ed


>>2- What is load balancing? and would interchange work with load balancing and
>>multiple server?
>
>Sure. :-)
>
>>3- How I can have the userdb shared by all catalogs?
>>Any comments, help would be greatly apreciated.
>
>The easiest/best way is to use an external dbms, such as MySQL, and 
>configure all catalogs to connect to the same db.userdb. I suppose if you 
>were using the GDBM you could just symlink each additional catalog's 
>products directory back to the 'original' one, as long as ownerships and 
>permissions allowed it. But this latter approach is not recommended.
>
>- Ed
>
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