Cuddles McKitten
September 2nd, 2010, 06:00 AM
Say I wanted to set up a website. I start with a simple setup of a firewall/Squid-proxy, a web server running a PHP web app, and a database machine (MySQL). However, after said website becomes known, usage peaks at several dozens of simultaneous users. The setup mentioned doesn't work very well anymore and, to make matters worse, if something happened to any ONE of those boxes the whole site would go down.
Here's the problem: I only have a vague idea of how to scale up. Plus, I don't know much about server hardware. Is there anything I could read that might lead me by the hand through -- or at the very least help start to educate me in -- creating a load-balancing cluster and scaling up? Bonus points if it has anything about what to start thinking about admin-wise for scripts etc., implementing RAID, and what to look for in server hardware.
Here's the problem: I only have a vague idea of how to scale up. Plus, I don't know much about server hardware. Is there anything I could read that might lead me by the hand through -- or at the very least help start to educate me in -- creating a load-balancing cluster and scaling up? Bonus points if it has anything about what to start thinking about admin-wise for scripts etc., implementing RAID, and what to look for in server hardware.