[consulting] Distributed Loads, Failover and Dynamic Content

[Boerland, Bert]

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> 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.  

>From what I see SiteKreator uses Content Delivery Network, not unlike Akamai, Digital Island and the likes. Though functionality wise this is much the same as Global Server Load Balancing, it /is/ something completly different from a technical POV and still needs a "master" scenario (read: one infrastructure that is leading for all content). It works best for "static content" rich sites (read pictures, stylesheets, audio etc) but not easy for "dynamic content" (read: comments). 

If one needs offloading of content, CDN (or to akamai :-) is a good solution. If one needs HA of dynamic content, it wont work.