We're pitching on a project that requires a load balanced environment setup (stipulated by the client) with the following restrictions:
We are not able to setup a sync / dfs solution of files (media / lucene indexes) etc
Do media files get distributed by the dispatch service in Umbraco. If they don't, is there an alternate provide for the media section that stores media in the database (V5 / hive is not an option at this stage)?
Seems to me that you'll have to use a SAN then for truly distributed storage; if you can't replicate a file, then by definition you can only ever have *one* copy of it, shared across multiple servers.
Load Balanced Environment and media
We're pitching on a project that requires a load balanced environment setup (stipulated by the client) with the following restrictions:
Hi Janusz,
Found an old forum post about this: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/core/41-feedback/11936-Creating-media-in-load-balanced-setup-causes-endless-loop
Cheers, Lee.
Seems to me that you'll have to use a SAN then for truly distributed storage; if you can't replicate a file, then by definition you can only ever have *one* copy of it, shared across multiple servers.
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