After a recent episode of PEBKAC affecting my website and completely trashing it’s config (i.e ME) I had to do a thorough bit of research and sort out multiple problems with a broken PHP config and Apache not loading. This has helped me in hindsight understand two things…
1) I really need to get myself a dev server built for testing website and not doing live
2) The recent downtime has helped me identify I need to look into failover and load balancing for my website on a secondary server
Not only will the failover server add website redundancy, it’s also mitigating the risk of data lost. Now, it’s going to be a bit difficult at first because I have to research computing clusters and load balancing
Once I work it out however, I’ll effectively have twice the computing performance and don’t need to worry too much if one server goes out of action
I’ve been going a bit mental on new hardware. Here’s a current spec I’m looking at doing for my new cluster. It could change too as I’m also looking into 4 x 12-core Magny CPUs for a PC too. Here’s the initial spec I’m looking at. Safe to say it will be a beast in performance increase when I get the cluster setup if I stay with this configuration
