BIND Round Robins & HTTPd Caching
I currently have 5 mirrored servers co-lo'd at various facilities that do nothing but serve images and video. Each machine is runing RedHat 7.2 w/ 1GB ram and a 40GB WD IDE drive. There isn't a real load balancing mechanism per say, but they're rotated by BIND's round robin feature.
As we all know to well, IDE drives suck, especially under load where the average file pulled is less than 10k. So, I have set out to find an http server that has some type of cacheing mechanism in it. If I could load 700MB of the most frequently requested content into ram and have it served from there instead of the IO, my drives would last longer and the serve would be quicker. Any suggestions as to what server I should use for this? I'm currently using thttpd, which is blazlingly fast, but I'd like to take some stress of the HDs if at all possible. Thanks!
Cheers-
NewWave
