load balanced web servers

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8/20/2010 3:02:11 PM
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load balanced web servers

Hi,

I've been doing a little research on what it would take to use mojoPortal in a load balanced/web farm setup and came across this forum post:

http://www.mojoportal.com/Forums/Thread.aspx?pageid=5&mid=34&ItemID=3&thread=1683&pagenumber=1

It's an older post, but I'm guessing most of the issues are still relevant.  Just to give you a little background on our solution, we're currently running 2.3.4.4 and using mojoPortal as more of a development platform instead of a pure content management system.  In other words, once our solution is deployed, the mojoPortal content (pages, page elements, images, etc.) remain static.  The only content that changes is data in a database separate from the mojoPortal database.  With that type of usage, I don't think we need to worry about synchronizing the files on the web server.  There won't be new images being uploaded and the built-in search is not an important feature for us.  The only thing I'm not clear on are the "cache dependency files".  If we're not modifying mojoPortal content after deployment, do we need to worry about synchronizing those files?  Is there anything else since this forum post in 2008 that I should be concerned with in a load balanced scenario?

Thanks,

Graham

8/21/2010 6:16:54 AM
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Re: load balanced web servers

Hi Graham,

I "think" it should be fine for your scenario. You could even use the search engine if you populate the search index before deployment, if the content doesn't change then there will be no changes to the search engine. Note though that changes to page permissions also cause changes to the search index because we keep page roles synced in the index in order to filter results by roles. Sounds like your pages would be all public anyway.

Will the file system be writable on each node?

If not you may need to disable log4net as well.

The cache dependency files are created beneath /Data/Sites/[SiteID]/systemfiles

they allow us to clear the cache for site settings when a setting is changed and also themes if you change the skins. As long as these files exist on disk and you are not making changes to site settings or skins after deployment it should be ok. Are the nodes all sharing the same cache for memory? If they are not then it should be ok for each node to touch it's own cache dependency files and in either case they should be ok without any syncing of those files.

I'll be curious to hear from you how it works out and any issues you do come across.

Best,

Joe

8/27/2010 10:32:55 PM
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Re: load balanced web servers

+1 curious mojo fan here !!!

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