On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ilan Berkner <iberkner@gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem that we're experiencing is that our single web server is
> getting "flooded" (not in a bad way) with a lot of incoming connections, our
> site is growing (yey). So I'm trying to figure out the best way to
> accommodate the growth. In our case, nginx itself is humming along just
> fine, but PHP is choking on requests both due to quantity of requests (it
> can't process them fast enough so there's growing queue) as well as due to
> delays in database (I think). So I'm upgrading the database and looking to
> add another web server box both to off load some of the load, as well as
> serve as a backup box, etc.
>

well it looks like you need to figure out where your bottleneck is.



> What I don't know how to do "well" yet, is how to maintain the code base
> the same across the 2 boxes (will using a shared directory work?)
>
>
sure. Better cache those files locally! this is where you'll have to do some
work (ie., "research") into the shared file systems to use.


-jf


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In the meantime, here is your PSA:
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help."
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