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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: DrDeepWood on November 26, 2012, 07:48 am

Title: Seperate user and vendor servers for crash
Post by: DrDeepWood on November 26, 2012, 07:48 am
Why not seperate the vendor and user accounts on different servers? Vendors probably cause like 1% of the traffic and have a lot more to lose than users, also this will prevent orders from not going through in a situation like last week.
Title: Re: Seperate user and vendor servers for crash
Post by: CharlieAndMollie on November 26, 2012, 08:46 pm
A vendor without buyers is a hermit IMO.

I can't see the advantage for separation of buyers and vendor accounts on different servers as what really matters is the GUI and the database behind it containing all the orderinfo etc. When this engine is down, the road is blocked;)


Title: Re: Seperate user and vendor servers for crash
Post by: ruthenium on November 26, 2012, 08:46 pm
i think switching the httpd would improve alot.. apache ulimit is craphola, go for nginx and set up a reverse proxy to filter traffic through a IDS (snort_inline for example) to filter malicious attacks.

just an idea
Title: Re: Seperate user and vendor servers for crash
Post by: ruthenium on November 26, 2012, 08:48 pm
A vendor without buyers is a hermit IMO.

I can't see the advantage for separation of buyers and vendor accounts on different servers as what really matters is the GUI and the database behind it containing all the orderinfo etc. When this engine is down, the road is blocked;)

a redunant sql cluster would be good indeed. I am afraid they don't use remote sql clusters and all databases are stored locally.

offtopic: another suggestion is the ability to download the wallet.dat in case SR gets raided or anything in that way.
Title: Re: Seperate user and vendor servers for crash
Post by: niemtel on November 26, 2012, 10:18 pm
I would love to see vendors and buyers being on separate servers if that is possible, maybe even a third server to actually hold the physical orders (meaning have the buyer server connect to the order server and have the vendor server query the order server when needed). that would reduce a lot of traffic and might even avoid some down times.
Title: Re: Seperate user and vendor servers for crash
Post by: ruthenium on November 26, 2012, 10:46 pm
I would love to see vendors and buyers being on separate servers if that is possible, maybe even a third server to actually hold the physical orders (meaning have the buyer server connect to the order server and have the vendor server query the order server when needed). that would reduce a lot of traffic and might even avoid some down times.

remote sql clusters and a few webservers running nginx, not shitty apache