[freeside-users] Setup for Redundancy

[Madalitso Mzandu]

Thanks for the pointers. I am actually thinking along the same lines.
Probably two front end nodes and replicated database.

You'll probably hear from me if I get stuck.

Mada

2009/11/24 Jason Hall <jayce at lug-nut.com>

> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Madalitso Mzandu <amzandu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Has anyone ever tried to install two instances of freeside(on separate
> > machines) with a single (PG) backend?
> >
> > Or better yet does can anyone suggest a setup that offers redundancy.
>
> Actually, for a large company I implemented systems like this.  We
> actually had 4 front end nodes, and a replicated database that they
> would talk to.  There actually isn't a problem with this overall,
> since Freeside makes generous usage of the mutex in PG to lock, so
> different 'heads' won't clash.
>
> The one thing you should watch, for wasted resources only because the
> lock works, is if you are running -daily and friends on multiple
> machines.  It works, but why waste the effort.
>
> Also helpful to spread the load was my earlier commits (I think I
> committed it all) of the bill queued job, that would run the ->bill
> method of your daily process via the queue, so multiple machines could
> split the load.
>
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