wizade
08-05-2003, 12:22 PM
So I've seen large vbulletin forums like
http://www.literotica.com:81/forum/
If you do
host literotica.com
you get 3 different ip addresses. So I would assume that they are using dns round robin load balancing.
Anyone run a setup like this before?
Are they just mirroring everything and linking to a database on 1 server?
telnettro
08-05-2003, 04:40 PM
they're probably using real load balancing, and since there are a ton more gets than updates, they're prolly using slave DBs for those and updates go to the master.
wizade
08-05-2003, 04:51 PM
yeah..
I just see this method a lot and they have 3 ip's.
I wouldnt think they would have 3 different ip's unless they were using this method?
THW-Dave
08-07-2003, 04:23 PM
3 webservers, one database server on the backend.
Phrozen
08-07-2003, 05:03 PM
I don't see why that site would need more than one server, but whatever floats their boat.
wizade
08-07-2003, 05:56 PM
Originally posted by Phrozen
I don't see why that site would need more than one server, but whatever floats their boat.
Try putting a extremely popular forum running vbulletin or phpbb on one server and watch what happends ...
once you pass 500 simultaneous users all clicking like crazy (generating 20 mysql queries per load) your server will be consumed lol
ls1.com has a dual processor xeon machine and it overloads all the time... and their forum is only medium sized compared to some like literotica.
These forums are just very resource hungry.
Phrozen
08-07-2003, 07:18 PM
Originally posted by wizade
Try putting a extremely popular forum running vbulletin or phpbb on one server and watch what happends ...
once you pass 500 simultaneous users all clicking like crazy (generating 20 mysql queries per load) your server will be consumed lol If you know how to configure a database properly, that wouldn't be the case.
Take http://genmay.net for example, it has over 4 million posts and anywhere between 500-800 users online at any given time. It's currently running quite nicely on one dual Xeon machine pushing out roughly 1,200-1,500 GB of data per month.
wizade
08-07-2003, 08:13 PM
that is quite quick for 500 people online. They have done it right.
Isnt this forum hosted on multiple servers?
Phrozen
08-07-2003, 08:23 PM
Originally posted by wizade
Isnt this forum hosted on multiple servers? Yes, 4 dual Xeons for the forums and another dual Xeon for the database.
