> -----Original Message----- > From: Veary, Marc, VF UK - Technology (TS) > [mailto:Marc.Veary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 10:11 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio > > > My question was badly crafted, apologies... > > Let me try again with an example: > > If I have 50 web sites, each a cluster of 10 physical > machines with a web server on each. Now, I want to place > Apache in front of these 50 sites (web server clusters) as a > reverse proxy. What I am trying to figure out is roughly how > many physical machines I might need to host an Apache web > server for each cluster? It's got nothing to do with the *number* of machines. Presumably, all these internal server are on a LAN - there's no limit to the number of machines you can have on the LAN (apart from the hard-limit from the width of the address space). Note that I am NOT saying that your physical machine can handle an infinite amount of traffic - only that there is no limit defined by the protocol... I think your question is really about bandwidth (which is quite a separate subject) and is impossible to answer without knowing the expected traffic on each site. You could have a million webservers and proxy them over a dial-up modem - if no-one ever requests a page from them... Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > Would 2 physical machines (clustered) handle the throughput > for a cluster of 10 web servers? Is there a 'wet string' > guideline to the number of web servers (serving a single > site) that can be handled by a single Apache 2 proxy? > > It is possible that I have just not understood... > > Many thanks for any help. > > Kind regards, > -- > Viz > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boyle Owen [mailto:Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxx] > Sent: 05 July 2005 08:42 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Veary, Marc, VF UK - Technology (TS) > > [mailto:Marc.Veary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 09:35 > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [users@httpd] Proxy Server to Web Server Ratio > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > I am new to using Apache as a proxy. Could someone give me a > > rough idea > > of how many web servers Apache 2 can proxy? > > As many as there are on the internet. > > Apache simply takes incoming requests from the client and > re-issues them to whatever proxy is defined in the config > rules for the given request... > > Reading between the lines, I suspect you are harbouring a > misconception about how HTTP operates. It is not a > connection-based protocol - it is connectionless and > stateless. So your question is not like "how many phone calls > can a switchboard handle?", it is more like "how many > addresses can the post office deliver to?" > > Rgds, > Owen Boyle > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > > I know this is > > like asking > > 'How long is a piece of string?', but I need a rough starting point. > > Does anyone know of any stats from testing (mind craft, etc)? > > > > Kind regards, > > -- > > Viz > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > > Server Project. > > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > Diese E-mail ist eine private und persönliche Kommunikation. > Sie hat keinen Bezug zur Börsen- bzw. 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