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06-05-2003, 12:12 PM
I just wondered if anyone could offer any help or suggestions.
I have written a photo sharing application aimed at professional photographers. The application is written in Perl and comes in two parts. In very simple terms, the first responds to a users browser requests, searches a MySQL database and then generates a page of thumbnails, the user can then buy photos etc.. The second part lets the photographers upload their photographs, it then resizes them and adds a watermark etc.. it also takes input from a form and populates the MySQL database with information about the photograph.
I have bought the following equipment but don't want to use it all (need to recoup some money) and I was wondering what would be the best set-up that allows the greatest level of redundancy. The servers will be colocated so if one goes down it will take around an hour to get on site so the system must remain fully functional till I can get to the co-lo facility.
I am a software person and I am confused about the best way to set-up the hardware so if anyone could offer me some advice I would be very grateful.
2 x Radware load balancers
2 x 3com 24 port 10/100/1000 switches
1 x Intel Netstructure ecommerce accelerator
3 x Intel 1u 750mhz P3 with 9gb SCSI
2 x Intel 1u dual Intel 1.13 P3 with ATA RAID(2 discs)
2 x Intel 2u dual 1ghz P3 with SCSI (6 discs)
1 x Intel 1u Dual 2.4ghz Xeon with ATA RAID(2 discs)
1 x Intel 2u Dual 2.4ghz Xeon with SCSI(6 discs)
2 x Iomega NAS server with 3 x 120GB ATA drives in RAID 5 config
1 x Benchmark 640 8 cassette tape drive
1 x Sun Netra T1 AC200 with SCSI
3 x Sun Netra D130 SCSI disc arrays (3 x SCSI discs each)
TIA
Sean
I have written a photo sharing application aimed at professional photographers. The application is written in Perl and comes in two parts. In very simple terms, the first responds to a users browser requests, searches a MySQL database and then generates a page of thumbnails, the user can then buy photos etc.. The second part lets the photographers upload their photographs, it then resizes them and adds a watermark etc.. it also takes input from a form and populates the MySQL database with information about the photograph.
I have bought the following equipment but don't want to use it all (need to recoup some money) and I was wondering what would be the best set-up that allows the greatest level of redundancy. The servers will be colocated so if one goes down it will take around an hour to get on site so the system must remain fully functional till I can get to the co-lo facility.
I am a software person and I am confused about the best way to set-up the hardware so if anyone could offer me some advice I would be very grateful.
2 x Radware load balancers
2 x 3com 24 port 10/100/1000 switches
1 x Intel Netstructure ecommerce accelerator
3 x Intel 1u 750mhz P3 with 9gb SCSI
2 x Intel 1u dual Intel 1.13 P3 with ATA RAID(2 discs)
2 x Intel 2u dual 1ghz P3 with SCSI (6 discs)
1 x Intel 1u Dual 2.4ghz Xeon with ATA RAID(2 discs)
1 x Intel 2u Dual 2.4ghz Xeon with SCSI(6 discs)
2 x Iomega NAS server with 3 x 120GB ATA drives in RAID 5 config
1 x Benchmark 640 8 cassette tape drive
1 x Sun Netra T1 AC200 with SCSI
3 x Sun Netra D130 SCSI disc arrays (3 x SCSI discs each)
TIA
Sean