large scale websites architecture
Here's one way to design a large-scale network - and this comes from my experience being the designer and network admin of a top 50 website property that generated millions of hits day:
We used F5's Big-IP's (basically an advanced load balancer) in front of a bunch of web servers that were all tied into a SAN that was RAID-5 and we had dedicated database servers that were replicated.
when its time to grow there is a way to do it w/ dynamically created URLs , its just you need more machines than serving static html pages. Be aware that these solutions are not cheap by any means....but if you are generated that much traffic its time to find an investor.
Best,
-John
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John Molino
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www.888voip.com
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