Is two web servers and one shared file server a good idea?

Marius Anderie

11/2/23, 6:43 PM

Current problem:

we have a single web server that hosts a website with user generated content
the server constantly needs more upgrades to keep up with the storage space
it's hard to make changes without temporarily disabling the website

Idea to fix these problems:

add a file server that is responsible for storing all data (it provides a shared remote directory and a remote MySQL server)
add two web servers that each access the file server
one web server will be used as a development environment (with optional access to the production data)
the other will be used as a production environment
when the development server works as intended the changes will be added to the production server

All three servers will run their applications as docker containers.

Is this a good idea or are there flaws? I'd be thankful for feedback.

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synchronization

network-share

architecture

infrastructure

shared-storage

djdomi

11/2/23, 6:58 PM

moreover, it depends on the requirements. sometimes it's a good choice to use a cdn or a cluster or or or... we can't tell you how to do your business we can act on facts that are missing here.

TomTom

11/2/23, 7:17 PM

Ok, stupid question... how is adding a server going to help with "the server constantly needs more upgrades to keep up with the storage space"? You will still require constant upgrades to keep up with the storage space.

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