[OOTB-distro] Clustering/load balancing Alfresco Commmunity

[Torben Lauritzen]

On 07/05/2015, at 08.45, Andreas Steffan <a.steffan at contentreich.de> wrote:

> On 05/06/2015 04:56 PM, Torben Lauritzen wrote:
>> 
>>> The thing is: I don't see any real world pain or demand for Alfresco
>>> specific clustering  (for CE). Thats all. ;)
>>> 
>> 
>> People are using clustering for enterprise, and for good reason. For CE to be a real alternative to enterprise for big organizations, CE must also have clustering and load balancing (and other things that are nice about enterprise).
>> 
> 
> Sorry, but I don't buy the "The EE people are doing this for good reason" argument. :) The feature came along with the EE they bought. Why not make use of it when it comes at no additional cost?
> 

Why make use of it, if it is not necessary?


> I am sure Alfresco Inc. has a serious need this feature at cloud scale. But other than that?
> 
> Speaking about scale, you might want to check out how the SO guys are doing it : http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-update-560m-pageviews-a-month-25-servers-and-i.html . Has nothing to do with Alfresco, but shows that you can get very far by just scaling up vertically.
>  

That is exactly the point! With enough money for hardware and a specialized application, you can get very far… But we have the opposite situation: It needs to run on relatively cheap hardware and it is a very generic and large application. 


> Besides, people have been doing all kinds of stupid stuff before realizing it was stupid. :) Everybody thought ORM is great. Today, most people thing its wrong for most applications.
> 

That is correct! Although I am not sure it applies to this case.

Also remember that clustering gives high availability.

So basically: If you need high performance for your ECM, use Alfresco Enterprise or build something from scratch!!! I hope to get some comments from other members of the Order - because I am not entirely happy with this.

Cheers,
Torben



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