[consulting] Distributed Loads, Failover and Dynamic Content

[Boris Mann]

On 17-Jul-06, at 1:36 PM, neil.mcevoy at ondemand-network.com wrote:

>
>> This is a very interesting thread. Let me chip in my experience  
>> for Global
>> Loadbalancing.
>
>
> Yes, very interesting. Do you think there is an argument/ 
> opportunity for
> associated specialist Drupal hosting services?
>
> I know that many hosters do the Fantastico thing for Drupal, but  
> that's
> amongst many other apps, and I don't think there's any global
> loadbalancing.
>
> Is there something extra special could be done for Drupal? For example
> could some kind of platform be deployed that could achieve this  
> multi-site
> replication, so that any/all hosted sites enjoy the levels of  
> resilience?
> Is it a nasty software challenge or could it be handled by $$/iron?

That's what we're in the process of building out with Firebright. It  
will run on a grid computing system powered by http://www.3tera.com.  
It's a rather large integration/configuration challenge, so 3+ months  
is what we're looking at right now.

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