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I used GlusterFS a couple of years ago (2011) for a hosting project, we had about 300 or so medium-large PHP sites based on top of a GlusterFS cluster. It ran b
by jamescun 12y ago
I used GlusterFS a couple of years ago (2011) for a hosting project, we had about 300 or so medium-large PHP sites based on top of a GlusterFS cluster. It ran beautifully but the pain points where it fell down was small file performance and its configuration system (I think this has been made much nicer in more recent versions).
- growse 12y agoI had a similar experience trying to build a highly-available wordpress infrastructure a few years back. The terrible latency of gluster completely killed any chance of getting decent web performance out of it. Ended up implementing OCFS2 on DRBD, much better.
- velodrome 12y agoWere you serving the PHP files off of Gluster? Or just the static files?
- stevekemp 12y agoI had a client running PHP from a gluster storage, split across two nodes. Performance was horrific, although some of the sites were improved via Varnish we eventually had to move to local copies of files & rsync. Not pleasant. Gluster is nice, but you have to accept the fact that it is slow, and upgrades are painful. (We had issues where clients and servers had to be updated at the same time, to avoid interoperability issues.)