webcatalog approaching max

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1998


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texte = We're just about to bring our WebCatalog site online with WebTen on PowerMac G3/300. The mailing list archive has answered nearly every question I've had during the development.Here's my big remaining question: what happens when WebCatalog on one computer runs out of steam? There has been some talk on the list about this, but no definitive answers.I ask because I'm pretty confident we'll be at the limits of our server within the next few months based on trends over the past year and my benchmarks of our new server. About 90-98 percent of our server power is devoted to WebCatalog (according to BIAP Profiler), which is why we can approach this limit so quickly. I know we can buy a four-processor Pentium running Windows NT, but it's not clear to me how much more headroom that would buy us.There are two possible kinds of scenarios where this problem will arise: (1) When databases (including carts) need to be synchronized across servers (2) When no synchronization is necessaryFrom what I understand, the second is no big deal. You just buy more servers and randomly assign requests to machines.Unfortunately, we face the first scenario. Fortunately, the possible events during which the servers can go out of sync are very rare (when items are added to a cart, and when items are purchased).I know [TCPSend] context is coming in WebCatalog 3.0, but I'm looking for someone with practical experience out there: has anybody run a single ecommerce site on more than one machine successfully? Is anybody familiar with how the big boys do this? In other words, how are carts ever synced across servers when somebody uses something like the Cisco LocalDistributor?I could benefit from reading the reasonable budget answer and the money is no object answer.Another related concern is with redundancy. We'd love to put up a second machine to be active whenever our first goes down. Anybody doing this?BTW, if anybody out there is thinking about using WebCatalog, do it. It has made our development experience a total joy.I only wish it was a standalone application, as well, since I've grown so fond of WebDNA but have grown so tired of always running it under a server... Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: webcatalog approaching max (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  2. Re: webcatalog approaching max (Paul Willis 1998)
  3. webcatalog approaching max (Mdschoen@aol.com 1998)
We're just about to bring our WebCatalog site online with WebTen on PowerMac G3/300. The mailing list archive has answered nearly every question I've had during the development.Here's my big remaining question: what happens when WebCatalog on one computer runs out of steam? There has been some talk on the list about this, but no definitive answers.I ask because I'm pretty confident we'll be at the limits of our server within the next few months based on trends over the past year and my benchmarks of our new server. About 90-98 percent of our server power is devoted to WebCatalog (according to BIAP Profiler), which is why we can approach this limit so quickly. I know we can buy a four-processor Pentium running Windows NT, but it's not clear to me how much more headroom that would buy us.There are two possible kinds of scenarios where this problem will arise: (1) When databases (including carts) need to be synchronized across servers (2) When no synchronization is necessaryFrom what I understand, the second is no big deal. You just buy more servers and randomly assign requests to machines.Unfortunately, we face the first scenario. Fortunately, the possible events during which the servers can go out of sync are very rare (when items are added to a cart, and when items are purchased).I know [tcpsend] context is coming in WebCatalog 3.0, but I'm looking for someone with practical experience out there: has anybody run a single ecommerce site on more than one machine successfully? Is anybody familiar with how the big boys do this? In other words, how are carts ever synced across servers when somebody uses something like the Cisco LocalDistributor?I could benefit from reading the reasonable budget answer and the money is no object answer.Another related concern is with redundancy. We'd love to put up a second machine to be active whenever our first goes down. Anybody doing this?BTW, if anybody out there is thinking about using WebCatalog, do it. It has made our development experience a total joy.I only wish it was a standalone application, as well, since I've grown so fond of WebDNA but have grown so tired of always running it under a server... Mdschoen@aol.com

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