[Typo3-typo3org] Server requirements for T3 sites

Martin Herr mt3x at yeebase.com
Thu Apr 14 21:00:55 CEST 2005


Hi list,

I know everybody will be laughing about it but check this out ;)

http://www.shadowflux.com/xbox.html
http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~bguillot/xbox/home.html

I know 5 nodes won't be enough but they are really cheap. It's just a 
crazy idea but I was surprised how fast my TYPO3-xbox-debian-linux was 
(although it has only 64MB Ram!, 733MHz CPU, 100Mbit Network, 8-10GB 
HDD). I used one xbox for developing TYPO3-stuff and it run and run and....

My list of the day:
- 12 to 24 xboxes in one big cluster (only an optimized apache, php, 
imagemagick,...)
- one NAS (Network Attached Storage)
(- failover NAS)
- one huge DB-server (Master, could be your current webserver)
- one huge DB-server (Slave)
- your current load balancer solution

With that configuration you can render some OOdocs into pdf, too.
But the best of it: It costs you nothing (just space and energy)! Just 
collect some old xboxes and set it up.

I donate my old xbox! ;)
-Martin


Robert Lemke schrieb:
> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 17:49, Ingo Schmitt wrote:
> 
>>During our performance tests me discovered that the bottomleg in our
>>setup was the database. From other projects we are shure, that there are
>>serveral projects for speeding up MySQL, so we now manly think, that a
>>good configured MySQL System will be able to handle more Users on one
>>machine. Could this be a point to start from ?
> 
> 
> Yes. I prefer a solution where we use TYPO3 directly instead of generating 
> static HTML files because then we also demonstrate the performance of TYPO3 
> itself.
> 
> I expect a big perfomance gain by the improved caching mechanism in 
> combination with a proxy. Let's try that plus tuning the MySQL server and 
> then see if that is enough already.
> 



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