Op TechCrunch las ik een artikel over een nieuwe dienst van Media Temple: Grid Server. Ben Rockwood doet onderzoek naar het geheim achter het initiatief.
“The Grid magic is this: store all use data on NFS so that no matter which system you connect to you can access the data. Then spread your vhost configuration to all hosts in the “grid”, so that any system can serve your data. This system is therefore highly scalable because adding an additional node to the “grid” is trivial and reliable because if one system dies, big deal. But this means that you require two things to make it work: really good load balancers and really good NFS storage. And by good I mean very reliable and extremely fast.”