[Gluster-users] Gluster to support scalable web site

[Michael.OBrien]

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-users] 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


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