What are people doing for data sharing between real servers

[Jacob Coby]

Randy Paries wrote:
> On each server I am getting about 45 million hits a month. That is about 4
> millions pages a month but unfortunately the pages are customer designed and
> some are very very large with lots of images. That is why I gave you hits
> instead of visits. My one real server is running SCSI Raid 5. I have about
> 80nfsd running. The symptom I am having is sometimes when I am in the editor
> and do a write or if I do a directory listing it can take up to 30 seconds
> to write. 
> 
> For Jacob's question, I am serving up static web pages and also I have
> scripts that read text and xml files and lots and lots of images

How often does it change?  Would you be better off doing an rsync or 
rdist or some other custom solution to replicate the data from a master 
computer?

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-Jacob