[TYPO3-dev] [TYPO3-performance] Scaling TYPO3 horizontally

[Stefan Neufeind]

Hi,

but then why don't you use nginx directly for the caching of images
etc., or even with it's integrated webserver to also fetch the static
files from disk.

Furthermore, if you pass dynamic requests straight through, you don't
take advantage of caching pages as well. That would be possible with
"aggressive" caching in Varnish and then using something like the
varnish-TYPO3-module to actively inform varnish which pages were purged
from the cache/became invalid.


Kind regards,
 Stefan

On 09/12/2013 10:46 PM, Christian Ludwig wrote:
> Hi Ernesto,
> 
> I just found your post.
> 
> We are using Varnish for all http requests what does its job really well
> without any other optimizations needed.
> To handle SSL, we have an NginX that passes the "page" https requests
> straight to the TYPO3 Server (because these are the only real "dynamic"
> contents) and the static content requests like images, css and js to
> Varnish by http.
> 
> Christian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: typo3-dev-bounces at lists.typo3.org
> [mailto:typo3-dev-bounces at lists.typo3.org] On Behalf Of Ernesto Baschny
> [cron IT]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 10:17 PM
> To: typo3-dev at lists.typo3.org
> Subject: [TYPO3-dev] [TYPO3-performance] Scaling TYPO3 horizontally
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got some questions for the "performance-freaks" amongst us.
> 
> What techniques are you using for scaling TYPO3 in a "Cloudy" scenario
> (or in a scenario where you need horizontal scaling)?
> 
> Using some Load-Balancer in front of multiple frontend servers? Which?
> Varnish? Nginx? Pound?
> 
> If only Varnish, how are you handling SSL?
> 
> Where is your PHP running? Apache with mod_php? Nginx with FastCGI?
> PHP-FPM with either Apache or Nginx? Or some other method?
> 
> What PHP opcode cache are you using? APC? Zend? eAccelerator?
> 
> How are you synchronizing the file storage amongst the multiple frontend
> webservers (typo3temp, fileadmin, ...)? NFS? DRBD with OCFS2 or GFS2?
> rsync "from time to time"? iSCSI
> 
> How are you scaling MySQL? Master and multiple slaves? How are you
> ensuring TYPO3 writes only to the Master and reads from "some" slave?
> MySQL-Proxy? Some TYPO3 Extension?
> 
> Where are you letting TYPO3 cache your data? Redis? Memcache?
> File-Based? A mix?
> 
> If you are using Redis, how are you scaling this? Also Master-slave's?
> Sharding?
> 
> Are you separating the editors (Backend) on a separate frontend server?
> Are they working on the "live database" or on some copy? If on some copy
> of it, how are you synchronizing it to the live server(s)?
> 
> Well, many questions, but I expect many interesting answers. :) Maybe
> this could serve as a base for some documentation on this topic in
> future...
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ernesto