[TYPO3-UG US] Load Balancing - Knowledge Base

[Michael Cannon]

> What if you've optimized your site and server, and are still  
> running out
> of resources and struggling against heavy traffic? Install more  
> RAM, get
> a faster CPU, better disks, etc. Or you can improve performance by
> increasing the number of web servers.

At this point you separate your database and web server. After that  
you start adding database and web servers depending upon which is  
bogged down. My bigger clients run on dedicated boxes with at a  
minimum 2 2.8 GHz Xeon CPUs, dual disks, RAID 1, 2 GB RAM. I don't  
see the site performance slow at all unless I'm really working with  
some nasty SQL on a 10,000 member database or so.

Michael

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