Comments on: Are You Ready to Scale?

By: omnicity

omnicity — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:31:49 +0000

Are you just fishing for ideas, or do you plan to provide some suggestions of your own?

By: shalliday

shalliday — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:46:12 +0000

Hi Lucas,

We are exactly where your article leaves off. One applications server and one database server. Now experiencing site performance issues and being told I need to add two additional servers to handle existing and anticipated server load. I have been holding off making a decision and looking forward to your next post to see what other server configuration options to consider.

Thank you for posting on what is such a relevant and important issue for many of us.

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:08:09 +0000

Looking forward to the followup… you’ve told us about a problem but no solution!

By: zackjenks

zackjenks — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:31:42 +0000

1. Availability: You now have 2 points of failure. If either your web server or database server dies you are in trouble. What’s your plan when this happens?

Redundancy, Redundancy, Redundancy?

By: BlogPatrol

BlogPatrol — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:14:59 +0000

Hi Lucas, Our site growth and development exactly mirror your examples. Looking forward to hearing your suggestions in the next post!

By: Wolf_22

Wolf_22 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:28:53 +0000

The typical growth of a web site might look a little like something this…

Lucas, I think you have some great information in this article. May I suggest changing that first sentence, though, to reflect the following?:

“The growth of a typical web site might look like this…”

I am sure it was probably a typo of some sort. I just thought that a fix to that sentence above might help readibility. Regardless, keep up the great work!

By: jobr700

jobr700 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:52:37 +0000

You also need to take licensing into consideration. If you’re not using free software licenses tend to go up quickly when fail-over and other similar features are needed. We start to see this problem for clients hosting systems on their own machines.

By: devised

devised — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:45:25 +0000

Looking forward to the follow up as well as we could use some tips on increasing our server performance.

By: nwmcsween

nwmcsween — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:09:07 +0000

If you want availibilty go with something like ha-proxy

By: mrsmiley

mrsmiley — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:36:57 +0000

4. Unmanaged infrastructure = freedom in a rack

I don’t know that having multiple failure points is always a good thing. With more points to look at, your maintenance overhead increases with each point. And naturally, some points lend themselves to failure more than others.