[ic] load balancing

[Rackst.com Sales]

Thanks Ed
So you recomend interchange for busy site with millions of hits a month??

Quoting Ed LaFrance <edl at newmediaems.com>:

> 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.
> 
> >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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