-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Scott Hadfield schrieb:
Hi All,
I've been thinking about a possible summer of code idea, but I'm not sure it will fly so I wanted to get some feedback.
The basic idea is to look into solutions for running Drupal simultaneously across multiple servers for the purposes of running extremely large/busy sites, for load balancing on multiple servers (both database and web servers), or just for high availability (if one server dies, another will kick in). The project would consist of developing and documenting ways that this can be accomplished and developing tools or other Drupal patches/modules that are needed to accomplish the various tasks.
I don't think that Drupal needs to be patched for this (you might get better performance from some pending patches, but in principle Drupal will run just fine in such a scenario). To run Drupal - or any other script - in such a scenario is generally well understood but not well documented. redLED started something about this a while ago.
One of the main problems with this as a SoC proposal is that a large majority of what needs to be done here is OS/web server/database server specific. There would probably be a lot of Drupal specific stuff, but I'm not sure exactly how much.
I am afraid all you'd really do is to try things and to document them. As I understand SoC this does not qualify as a project since no code is produced.
Even if this won't fly as a SoC project I am still be interested on working on this. What's already been done in this area? Maybe some of this has already been solved?
As I said: Most of this has, but since it depends on your particular situation most solutions aren't really applicable to other people's. Cheers, Gerhard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF/6cefg6TFvELooQRAhpVAKCp4VHhXB4FiExTRL0LvttVnAAUewCdFP99 ebEkXZAvaHTCkzKWDPtKa68= =+AIB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----