[Phpslash-devel] Discuss high traffic and HA development

[Joe S. <joe...@us...>]

This message is crossposted to the Back-End developers and phpSlash 
developers.

I'd like to get an IRC discussion going on what developments need to be 
done to make BE/PSL more scalable and easier to deploy in a larger 
website installation.

While I'm not saying we should get away from the easy to install, easy 
to deploy on a hosted account ideas, there is also a need for being able 
to use the code on sites serving lots of page views from multiple servers.

I'd like to do this on IRC to get more of a real time discussion going. 
  Is there a good time for everyone?  But I'm not opposed to discussion 
here as well.

This may seem a little soon in the next phpSlash release cycle for this 
discussion, but after this is done, I'd like to get another discussion 
on a more general roadmap for BE and PSL.

A couple of my ideas to throw out:

High Traffic Discussion

- Load Balancing front end
- db clustering, master/slave, read servers and write servers, etc.
- memcache support in db reads, writes, html cacheing, etc.
- static file writing to support staging, pushing to multiple servers, 
ease of serving, speed, etc.
- squid reverse proxy front end.
- Ian's block cacheing
- using a separate image server with thttpd or somebody like akamai

Joe