<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">- How complicated do you want your life to be?</span></div><div>That's not really a concern. We just want to make sure our chat scales and scales well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Just how many users are you expecting to support?</span></div><div>Initially only a few thousand but it could spike to the 10k+ range pretty fast.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">How much do you want to spend?</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">No cost issue here.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> And, do you expect it to magically police itself. ^^?</span></span></font></div>
Yep. We push new servers live and ircd should properly handle itself.<div><br></div><div>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.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter%2Bhybrid@ixp.jp">peter+hybrid@ixp.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:46:36PM -0500, John C. Bland II wrote:<br>
> We're looking to run Hybrid on a few servers w/ a load balancer. Are there<br>
> any concerns with doing this?<br>
> I'm specifically looking for responses folks who have actually done this and<br>
> it is working. We're not big on theory. :-)<br>
<br>
</div> Ask yourself a few questions first.<br>
<br>
How complicated do you want your life to be?<br>
Due to a design decision early in its life, IRCd's seem only<br>
to support a tree structure. (Can anyone gainsay me?) Meaning<br>
that behind your client facing server, you need some magic glue<br>
if you want to join any other network.<br>
<br>
Just how many users are you expecting to support?<br>
1000, 10000? At these sort of levels, I doubt you need the big iron.<br>
<br>
How much do you want to spend?<br>
A lord banaliser will probably cost more than the server,<br>
unless of course, youre going to use "free" software.<br>
<br>
And, do you expect it to magically police itself. ^^?<br>
<br>
Things like this will help you wrap your head around the problem.<br>
If you expect to have 13million connections, you probably don't want<br>
anything traditional at all ^^;<br>
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P<br>
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