Comments on: Network Expansion http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2006/04/24/network-expansion/ Enhancing your Ubuntu experience! Fri, 11 May 2012 05:04:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gabriel Gunderson http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2006/04/24/network-expansion/#comment-24 Gabriel Gunderson Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:16:27 +0000 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/?p=34#comment-24 "I was thinking of setting up one of these two new machines as a DNS server. From what I understand this would be the best way for me to expand my web servers (ie; serve sites from multiple machines as need grows)." I guess I don't really know how that would help in serving web pages. You can do round-robin with any DNS (don't need to host it yourself) and point "www" or whatever to a couple of IP addresses - each running a web server. I think the best way would be to set up Apache with a reverse proxy and let it hand the work off to other web servers. Also, if you have less then 20 users or so, I think LDAP is overkill (well, it's nice, but a lot of work for that small of a group). But really, it all depends on what your setup is and what you want. My 2 cents. “I was thinking of setting up one of these two new machines as a DNS server. From what I understand this would be the best way for me to expand my web servers (ie; serve sites from multiple machines as need grows).”

I guess I don’t really know how that would help in serving web pages. You can do round-robin with any DNS (don’t need to host it yourself) and point “www” or whatever to a couple of IP addresses – each running a web server. I think the best way would be to set up Apache with a reverse proxy and let it hand the work off to other web servers.

Also, if you have less then 20 users or so, I think LDAP is overkill (well, it’s nice, but a lot of work for that small of a group). But really, it all depends on what your setup is and what you want.

My 2 cents.

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