Thanks mattyboy, Tony, Doc, Tat, Buddah, HungLo, and Lenny.
It really means a lot to hear that it's working so well for so many people
because I put my heart and soul into deveoping Strongbox. After spending
about a year on something called PicFortress I had to shelve that
project due to compatibility issues. I went back and picked up some research
I'd done on password sites and dictionary attacks and 18 months later had
the first release of Strongbox ready. After PicFortress didn't pan out
it's great to know that my more recent work is working so well for so
many webmasters.
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Originally Posted by SGS
We had Ray set it up on one of our load balance set ups a year or so ago but we didnt have time then to sort out the teething problems. Would like to try it again but we have a much bigger load balance set up now and don't want to cause any major problems.  |
You're at Webair, right? I just set up the current version on a Webair cluster consisting
of I believe 9 (or was it 6?) front end web servers, a pair of NFS servers, and I think
another auxilary server for MySQL etc. That's working nicely, so the current version
will scale OK on a large cluster of the type Webair builds (which are done right, BTW, if anyone
is in need of a clustering solution). I believe it's OneHungLo, who posted in this thread,
who has a geographically diverse cluster running Strongbox and who seems to be
very happy with it. He has servers in different cities clustered, so we can work with
just about anything. On the other hand, very large sites of the type that are normally
put on large clusters do have some differences from smaller sites and that's why
we're writing some new Strongbox components such as an incredibly fast database
system custom designed for storing and processing the data that Strongbox uses.
Overthe next 30-60 days we'll be readying a version of Strongbox that runs like
nothing else on very large sites.