[ic] Replication/load balancing

[Robert Trembath]

I am following this thread and would like Mike to expand on "Why not NFS?"
for me. I'll be in need of a load balancing solution for TH 7.0 and 7.1
servers running Interchange soon.
Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Heins" <mikeh@minivend.com>
To: <interchange-users@developer.akopia.com>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ic] Replication/load balancing


> Quoting interch (interch@web3.valley-internet.com):
> >
> >
> > I am starting the process of looking at the best way to put together a
> > redundant load balanced IC implementation, and before I really start
> > digging thought I would ask this first.
> >
> > What parts of the IC catalog directory, the pages, config files,
> > templates, etc.., could not be stored and accessed entirely from a
> > database?
>
> In 4.7.x, very little, but it would be difficult to go through and
> check everything. You can actually pull the pages from a database,
> and most of the configuration files can also be put in a database.
>
> But why not NFS? It is fast, and with firewalls it is pretty secure.
>
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