LAMP means Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python and this combination of Linux software powers many interactive Web sites and projects around the Internet and corporations. The capacity of a single LAMP-powered server may be overloaded at times and its necessary to then build a LAMP cluster to meet future demands. Check out this cool posts on how to configure a low-cost LAMP cluster.iStockphoto Inc., a royalty-free stock photography company that offers contributors the chance to sell one-time rights to their images for $1 each is also powering its services using LAMP clusters as they wanted to move out of Coldfusion and Microsoft Access.
A LAMP cluster is not the Beowulf kind of cluster that uses specialized message-passing software to tackle a computation-intensive task. It does not cover high availability features, such as automatic failover. Rather, it is a load-sharing cluster that distributes Web requests among multiple Web and database servers while appearing to be a single server.
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