How to implement Load Balancer to support more concurrent users

How to implement Load Balancer to support more concurrent users

by Vinoth Kumar L -
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We have the following box which has everything (Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Windows 2003
Xeon Processor E5504 @ 2.00 GHz
8 GB RAM

PHP - 5.2.13
MYSQL - 5.1.49
Apache - 2.2
Moodle - 1.9.9 

Currently this system is stable to support 250 - 300 concurrent users without any performance issues.

We have a similar hardware config available and we would like to implement load balancer so that the setup supports more concurrent users.

I am not a techie. Can someone help me out to set it up ?

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Re: How to implement Load Balancer to support more concurrent users

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Did you see http://docs.moodle.org/en/Performance#Scalability ?

I'm not in Microsoft, but for a modern server I would have though "Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit" is the minimum. Still, I wonder whether there is a non-techie approach to a Moodle cluster.
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Re: How to implement Load Balancer to support more concurrent users

by Vinoth Kumar L -

Thanks for the info.

Is it possible to user network load balancing service in windows 2003 ? I have the document to set up NLB service. However, I am not sure how to go about using it for Moodle.

Any doc available which shows the step by step process for implementing the load balancer using NLB in windows 2003.

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