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From: "Jeremy Brooks" <jbrooks4@austin.rr.com>
To: "'Perrin Harkins'" <perrin@elem.com>, "'Ken Perl'" <kenperl@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: clusters
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 10:26:04 -0500
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We use Ultra Monkey (IPVS) to cluster our E-com site with commodity
hardware.
Your application needs to cache sessions in a common database table in order
to make session work consistantly.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:perrin@elem.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:28 AM
> To: Ken Perl
> Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org
> Subject: Re: clusters
> 
> Ken Perl wrote:
> > Is it possible to make a modperl application to run in cluster?
> 
> Of course.
> 
> > if yes, how to do that?
> 
> The same as any other web system -- multiple machines, a load 
> balancer, shared data on a database or other system.
> 
> > any doc?
> 
> Tons of them.  Practically any doc about clustering will 
> apply.  I wrote one ages ago about one mod_perl site I worked at:
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/tutorials/apps/scale_etoys/etoys.html
> 
> Is there some specific part you're having trouble getting 
> your head around?
> 
> - Perrin