[UPHPU] load balanced file-based sessions

[thebigdog]

Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> What options exist for file-based sessions within a high traffic, load 
> balanced environment?

you can use samba or nfs for the file storage. there are also other network 
filesystems that you can use and slap security over them. There are load 
balancers that use proxy information too handle the session information. there 
are products out there that can do this all for you. Oracle has it built into 
their application suite and so does ibm. In my opinion ibm has the best system 
out their for this type of solution. the price is high but the quality is far 
superior than anything i have used.

You could probably have a simple solution with apache...however, if your site is 
getting pounded then you might have some huge network issues. Here are some load 
balancers that i have looked into too...cisco, barracuda, and zues. Also when 
you start looking at this a home grown solution is probably not the best solution.


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thebigdog