Design Specs: Scalability
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Objectives
To build a robust and scalable platform for hosting the next generation of the WormBase website.
Current Status
As of Jan 2010, the WormBase website resides on a heterogeneous cluster of webservers. A single server running the squid reverse proxy software load balances across these servers.
Although this system scales easily, it is not ideal for the following reasons.
1. Multiple single points of redundancy
2. Difficulty of configuration and management
3. Lack of true fault tolerance
