On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:11 PM, c h wrote: > - Start with single PC, > - then separate out the login/register database PC; > - then start adding as many PCs to do web access / file storage job as ne= eded; > - the web access / =A0file storage PC would either serve the request if > the file is available locally, > - or, if the file is not available locally, the PC would ask local > database about which servers keep the file, and then redirect to one > of them. > - the synchronization of the local databases shoud be performed over > resonable time interval; > - you don't need RAID in my opinion, just maintain multiple copies of > files and place PCs at different locations; HDDs are cheap now, 2TB > per server seems to be a reasonable option. With reasonable > motherboard, RAM, and case, the server would be cheap. That sounds like a good task flow. I am still leaning towards ZFS RAIDZ2 or something like that. Next question is: if there are multiple servers set up to serve files, how will load sharing occur? How do I set up the load sharing? --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .