Web DBI - Too many connections
 
 
- Busy web sites run many web server processes
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- possibly on many machines
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- Limits on database connections
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- Memory consumption of web server processes
- Database server resources or licensing
 
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- Partition web servers into General and Database
- Direct database work to the Database web servers
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- Use Reverse Proxy / Redirect / Rewrite to achieve this
- Allows each subset of servers to be tuned to best fit workload
- And/or be run on appropriate hardware platforms