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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It’s a bit of a yes and no to your question of load-balancing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ideally I would like to be able to grow from web server + gluster server on same machine to multiple web servers behind a load balancer r+w’ing to the same replicated glusterFS but if storage throughput demand requires it that same glusterFS could be supplemented by multiple gluster-only servers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I guess what I would like to end up with is a setup that would let me scale out web servers, gluster storage space or gluster performance without any re-configuring to cope with more web traffic (add web servers), larger storage requirements for the sites themselves (add more space to /var/www/ on gluster) or faster disk i/o performance (add more gluster servers)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jay Vyas [mailto:jayunit100@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 06 August 2013 15:23<br><b>To:</b> Michael.OBrien<br><b>Cc:</b> Gluster-users@gluster.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster to support scalable web site<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>so are you asking if gluster would do all the load balancing for you for static content? I bet it could if you created a volume with extremely high replication. <br><br>This potentially similar to the idea of using a gluster distributed volume to replace a distributed file cache.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Curious if anyone has tried this and the results are as good /comparable to just manually replicating the files on normal disks. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Michael.OBrien <<a href="mailto:Michael.OBrien@ul.ie" target="_blank">Michael.OBrien@ul.ie</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi Gluster Gurus <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’m looking at implementing a web project that needs to be able to scale but starting out very small and I think gluster might be solution for my needs but I have a few questions that if answered would help clarify things in my head.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p>1.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Is gluster a viable solution for hosting web site content (site files themselves as well as user submitted but not db hosting) another forum pointed me to gluster as a way but I just want to check with the experts as I need to be able to scale out from 2 web server to n servers while having data replicated to all the web servers <o:p></o:p></p><p>2.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Can I start with having my bricks located on the same server as my web server but then if needed move seamlessly to add more brick servers without having to reconfigure my glusterfs mounts?<o:p></o:p></p><p>3.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>How would you recommend I handle anti-virus scanning gluster stored content?<o:p></o:p></p><p>4.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span> Would you recommend 1 gluster volume mounted as /var/www/ and used to server different web sites from the same web server or a volume per website /var/www/site1/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’m also interested to learn about the geo-replication feature as a way of keeping a backup of the data in a different location if there are any do’s and don’ts on the topic you might like to share.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gluster-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br><a href="http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users" target="_blank">http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>Jay Vyas<br><a href="http://jayunit100.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://jayunit100.blogspot.com</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>