[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Seperate Servers for OPAC and ILS?

[Jason Stephenson]

Quoting Thomas  Misilo <misilot at fit.edu>:


> The reason I asked is we are currently running a split install for  
> SirsiDynix Unicorn the OPAC and ILS software split. We decided to do  
> this after our OPAC was hit by Google Spiders a couple of years ago.  
> It seems like this is possible to do.

Evergreen is a very different sort of beast from Unicorn. The staff  
client and OPAC talk to the same WWW server in general. It is possible  
to split them, but most sites don't. They instead use "bricks" of  
servers with a load balancer to spread the load.

In many ways, it is easier to split the backend processes from the WWW  
server than it is to split the OPAC WWW server from the staff client  
WWW server.

Jason



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> Thank you for all the responses!
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> Tom
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