• Registered: 06/11/2012
  • Posts: 2

Topic: scale horizontally

Hello,

Has anyone tried to scale frontaccouting horizontally.

I can see that company/ directory has some state stored in it, which makes the webserver not completely stateless.

Are there any more known issues which prohibit scaling horizontally?

Thanks,
Nishant

  • Registered: 12/25/2007
  • Posts: 2,448

Re: scale horizontally

Well, I'm not sure what you mean by horizontal scaling?
'company' folder is used for any company specific content like per company images or other file storage.

Janusz

  • Registered: 06/11/2012
  • Posts: 2

Re: scale horizontally

Apologies, I meat to ask the pitfalls of adding more than 1 node to the frontaccounting installation.
e.g.:

                                         web server 1
Load Balancer <----------->                       ]-------------> Database server
                                         web server 2


The clients connect to the load balancer and the http request lands on 1 of the web-servers.

Since company/ directory now contains the state, above design will not work unless say company/ directory lives on a NFS drive which is mounted on both web servers.

This would make webserver redundant and avoid service being down if 1 of them happen to say, reboot.

My question is are there any other known concerns regarding the deployment design above.

Thanks,
Nishant

  • Registered: 12/25/2007
  • Posts: 2,448

Re: scale horizontally

FrontAccounting use standard php sessions based on session files. You will have to implement database based session handler, and save session data in mysql table..

Janusz