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Growing pains - too big for a single webserver

How do you keep your egg in more than one basket?

         

doppelganger

1:47 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello everyone. I've recently experienced a great deal of growth with my website. I am getting quite a bit of traffic and generally doing quite well. My major worry now is what would happen to my business if my webserver either crashed or received too much traffic to handle in a graceful manner.
What options are available to spread the traffic of a single website across multiple webservers? What about across multiple webservers at different ISPs? How do the big players handle this? How would you do it?

bcolflesh

1:49 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Load balance between several servers on separate, redundant connections - costs money, especially if you can't admin it yourself!

bcolflesh

1:53 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Quick def here:

whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci214490,00.html

doppelganger

2:20 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I thank you for the definition, bcolflesh.
I would like pointers on how real people have implemented load balancing. What hardware/software was used, how did you like it, how fiddly was it, and so on.

I know that it will be rather expensive and painful, but it WILL help me sleep at night.