[hybrid] Load balancing

[John C. Bland II]

- How complicated do you want your life to be?
That's not really a concern. We just want to make sure our chat scales and
scales well.

- Just how many users are you expecting to support?
Initially only a few thousand but it could spike to the 10k+ range pretty
fast.

- How much do you want to spend?
No cost issue here.

-  And, do you expect it to magically police itself. ^^?
Yep. We push new servers live and ircd should properly handle itself.

I just want to make sure we have chosen the proper IRC server. Balancing the
load isn't a concern right now but will be once we get more traction.

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On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Peter
<peter+hybrid at ixp.jp<peter%2Bhybrid at ixp.jp>
> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:46:36PM -0500, John C. Bland II wrote:
> > We're looking to run Hybrid on a few servers w/ a load balancer. Are
> there
> > any concerns with doing this?
> > I'm specifically looking for responses folks who have actually done this
> and
> > it is working. We're not big on theory. :-)
>
>         Ask yourself a few questions first.
>
>        How complicated do you want your life to be?
>                Due to a design decision early in its life, IRCd's seem only
>                to support a tree structure. (Can anyone gainsay me?)
> Meaning
>                that behind your client facing server, you need some magic
> glue
>                if you want to join any other network.
>
>        Just how many users are you expecting to support?
>                1000, 10000? At these sort of levels, I doubt you need the
> big iron.
>
>        How much do you want to spend?
>                A lord banaliser will probably cost more than the server,
>                unless of course, youre going to use "free" software.
>
>        And, do you expect it to magically police itself. ^^?
>
>        Things like this will help you wrap your head around the problem.
>        If you expect to have 13million connections, you probably don't want
>        anything traditional at all ^^;
>
>        P
>
>
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