Multiple Servers

[Media89]

Hello, i would really appreciate some advice with running multiple servers. I own a video hosting website and its very expensive to have a big server so I'd like to run multiple servers using Direct admin.

How does this work? if a user uploads a video, will it be available on second server to watch? Does the multiple server function transfer files between servers so they are duplicates live? Is this a good option for a video hosting provider?

Thank you for your advice.

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

Multi Server function in directadmin does not have anything with /home/* directory content sharing or syncing. So it's up to you, how you going to do it. You did not specify the whole image of what you want, so it's hard to give any detailed answer. You'd better think of hiring a specialist to do the setup for you. Feel free to contact me if you want my private help, or search the other guys here or ask your DC for help.

 

[NoBaloney2]

To clarify further and add more substance to zEitEr's excellent reply, the DirectAdmin multi-server option only synchronizes DNS between multiple servers.

To do what you want to do you'd need to have all your video's on some kind of network attached storage, perhaps (and most easily) NFS. And some kind of round-robin DNS system to make sure people reached different servers. Each DirectAdmin server would need it's own license, and therefore it's own public-facing static IP#. You could put DirectAdmin behind a system to do this, but you'd either need a front-end system to work as a proxy and refer requests to least-used systems, and to transparently pass the assigned public static-ip directly to the DirectAdmin server.

In our experience we've always found what you call a big server less expensive, as well as much easier to maintain; the two reasons to use multiple servers, as I see it, are because you've outgrown even a large server, and because you need redundancy, which includes it's own set of issues. Netflix, for example, uses commercial cloud services both for storage and distribution, and their own custom-built software.

 

[NoBaloney2]

To clarify further and add more substance to zEitEr's excellent reply, the DirectAdmin multi-server option only synchronizes DNS between multiple servers.

To do what you want to do you'd need to have all your video's on some kind of network attached storage, perhaps (and most easily) NFS. And some kind of round-robin DNS system to make sure people reached different servers. Each DirectAdmin server would need it's own license, and therefore it's own public-facing static IP#. You could put DirectAdmin behind a system to do this, but you'd need a front-end system to work as a proxy and refer requests to least-used systems, and to transparently pass the assigned public static-ip directly to the DirectAdmin server.

In our experience we've always found what you call a big server less expensive, as well as much easier to maintain; the two reasons to use multiple servers, as I see it, are because you've outgrown even a large server, and because you need redundancy, which includes it's own set of issues. Netflix, for example, uses commercial cloud services both for storage and distribution, and their own custom-built software.