AudioMusica Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Hi, I have inherited a PrestaShop server and we are soon to go live. I need to have a High Availability configuration. Where can I find documentation on this? Thanks. George. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioMusica Posted September 5, 2011 Author Share Posted September 5, 2011 No one? should I rephrase my question to "can Prestashop run in a HA environment"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 I would throw back to you "What kind of High Availability environment/strategy do you have/want to use?" Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioMusica Posted September 5, 2011 Author Share Posted September 5, 2011 that is what I want to know. what alternatives I have. Can I load balance, can I cluster. I am a MS person so having a services running Linux is a handicap, add that I have no knowledge of PrestaShop. But I need to present a HA plan, at least what can be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioMusica Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 Ok... "we lack" is "we" users? or "we" prestashop? I need to present (by Sept 8th) a proposal (I dont care if its just on paper) but I need some sort of HA proposal. I cant belive that one one can respond this. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 To be honest that's because the question is pretty general. Yes you can implement technology to run Prestashop with High Availability, but I wouldn't hold my breath for someone to come up with a design for you in a forum A full-on solution would involve a combination of MySQL clustering and load-balancing technologies across multiple front-end web servers I would guess. There's no specific barrier to running Prestashop in this kind of scenario that I can think of, although I do wonder if it isn't over-engineering. Separating the database from the front-end (web) servers would allow you to focus your spend on the reliability of the database which, if anything, is more "important". Sometimes just having a "spare" web server ready to swap in on the failure of the primary one is sufficient (in tandem with some sort of network attached or shared storage). I've implemented HA server clusters in the past and in almost all but a few specific cases I've left the project thinking that it had really been a waste of time and money (it was more to provide reassurance for a business analyst/manager than to meet a genuine business requirement). With any technology decision like this I would normally suggest you look at what the cost of downtime means for your business (say @ 90% up-time) and then compare this to the cost to implement technology to increase the figure towards 100%. I suspect you'll find that you'll discover that you need contingency/spares rather than true High Availability. Hope this helps Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioMusica Posted September 12, 2011 Author Share Posted September 12, 2011 Thanks! due to my lack of Linux experiance, I am looking at migrating the server to a virtual platform, there I can create a backup server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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