Large scale freehost

batcavenet · 10-15-2004, 11:32 PM

Anyone have experience with scaling a freehost with one domain to several servers?? I am not there yet but trying to figure out how best to do it

LP-Trel · 10-16-2004, 02:30 AM

I think the best way to scale using commercial control panels such as xPanel would be to establish a Linux based cluster on several servers.

This will allow you to maintain a system environment similar to that which you have currently but, with much increased resources.

Check out the following website for more information:

http://www.lcic.org/
http://www.beowulf.org/

batcavenet · 10-16-2004, 02:16 PM

The problem is it is /home/vhosts/username.domain.com

That will limit it to ext3 filesystem limits - about 65k - if anyone has scaled a freehost to many servers I would be interested to see how it's done

LP-Trel · 10-16-2004, 04:17 PM

Consider using FreeBSD then, ufs2 in 5.3 is a far superior file system in my opinion and FreeBSD clusters better than Linux anyway.

batcavenet · 10-16-2004, 04:33 PM

64 bit inodes - that might work- how many directories in one directory with ufs2?

JDT

LP-Trel · 10-16-2004, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by batcavenet

64 bit inodes - that might work- how many directories in one directory with ufs2?

JDT

I honestly didn't know so I went to research on Google to see if I could find any sort of limit. I honestly have never heard of there being a limit of directories in directories on ufs2 but, there may be.

The purpose of ufs2 was to better support multi-terrabyte partitions and disks so perhaps there is no limit.

You'll have to research it further, I've never ran into any such problems in 5.2.1 when having 40,000+ folders. (One system took 40,000 different folders in an odd C program a client wrote but, that is as high as I've ever seen it taken.)

Xoopiter-Jeff · 10-16-2004, 10:00 PM

I will be using Load Balancing soon at ThePlanet with the Rsync utility and a seperate MySQL server. Ill keep you up to date.

batcavenet · 10-18-2004, 03:04 PM

Have you put in the new log rotation tool that comes with 1.1.7 - it will help a lot with load to mysql

JDT

Mojo · 10-23-2004, 12:15 PM

I've done it with about 20 servers clustered around a filer using nfs.. works fine with over 300k accounts..

The technical aspect of scaling has not been a problem - financing multiple servers and hundreds of mbps is!

ecw · 10-28-2004, 04:06 PM

hsphere has the ability to do this.