Sharing storage between multiple Linodes
Can anyone suggest an effective way in which this could be achieved. In the past people have suggested using NFS but I was under the impression that NFS was not a particularly fast way to share storage. Are there any other options that I could use? Or is NFS an option that would actually work properly?
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Be careful (as always) if multiple clients might write to the same file.
I need to host web applications using the traditional web server / app server and database server model.
Clients will sign up for the service and then the web servers will proxy requests to the app servers. When the load reaches a certain level new app servers will either be spawned or the app server will be upgraded to a larger Linode. Since the web servers don't need to share any data (except for configuration files) and the database servers can just implement master / slave replication there is no problem with them. The problem is having multiple app servers running the same application and thus require the sharing of storage between all app servers running the same application.
Does that clarify what I am wanting to do? Hopefully it should, but if you require any more information please let me know.
If you go the NFS route, be sure to make it highly available
Ninja edit: see also puppetchef