It's a bit of a yes and no to your question of load-balancing 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. 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) From: Jay Vyas [mailto:jayunit100 at gmail.com] Sent: 06 August 2013 15:23 To: Michael.OBrien Cc: Gluster-users at gluster.org Subject: Re: Gluster to support scalable web site 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. This potentially similar to the idea of using a gluster distributed volume to replace a distributed file cache. Curious if anyone has tried this and the results are as good /comparable to just manually replicating the files on normal disks. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Michael.OBrien <Michael.OBrien at ul.ie> wrote: Hi Gluster Gurus 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. 1. 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 2. 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? 3. How would you recommend I handle anti-virus scanning gluster stored content? 4. 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/ 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. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide Michael _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -- Jay Vyas http://jayunit100.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130806/2716c33e/attachment-0001.html>
