How To Deploy a Production Web Server "Cached" From a Secondary Server?

[Jaffray]

Hello Ubuntu Forums!

I'm new here. Names Peter Jaffray.

I would like to know what terminology I should be using, what searches I should be performing, etc. to accomplish the following task:

I would like to launch a server which copies cached copies of the websites from my main server. I am reaching the point where my website traffic is becoming an issue and the load on the database is quite large.

Thank you

[chadk5utc]

I believe what your looking for is "Load balancing" I have not had reason for this so I have not personally tested it but found this link to get you started, hopefully. If possible I'd do some testing before installing this into a production server.
http://www.howtoforge.com/high_avail...apache_cluster

[sandyd]

Hello Ubuntu Forums!

I'm new here. Names Peter Jaffray.

I would like to know what terminology I should be using, what searches I should be performing, etc. to accomplish the following task:

I would like to launch a server which copies cached copies of the websites from my main server. I am reaching the point where my website traffic is becoming an issue and the load on the database is quite large.

Thank you

hmm
You probably want a http accelerator caching server like varnish or a reverse-proxy cacher like squid. I have generally found varnish to be the better one.

[Jaffray]

Thanks guys. Load balancing is exactly right. I looked into those options and while doing research I found mod_pagespeed which seems to really help as well.

You can use mod_pagespeed to create static files which can then be moved and served from anywhere! A new phrase I learned is "Sharding Domains". But all in all its load balancing which is what I need.