http://www.askflib.com/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:37:20 +0000en-usTMI-CMS RSS Plugin 0.4 (http://www.technomonk.com)support@askflib.com (AskFlib) AskFlib.com - New articles in Architecture http://www.askflib.com/article/coping-with-heavy-server-loads Wed, 20 May 2009 01:06:44 +0000 <p>Not every site has been dugg or slashdotted, but when they do its a frequent occurance that the server is unable to cope with the sheer number of requests that are fired at it. However all is not lost, there are many little tricks that together can mean the difference between being able to weather the storm or being trampled by it.</p> http://www.askflib.com/guid/article/12 http://www.askflib.com/article/making-sessions-cluster-aware Tue, 19 May 2009 11:33:26 +0000 <p>Once your application scales to the point that a single server isn't able to serve all your visitors anymore, sessions can become a problem.</p> <p>The default files-based session handler was only designed for a single server and so this must be taken into account if your application is to continue to run flawlessly.</p> <p>In this article I try to show some of the options available for dealing with sessions in a cluster.</p> http://www.askflib.com/guid/article/10