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Pass off Processing To Another Server?

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:30 am
by JakeJ
My app is about to go live and I'm going to have some resource issues as soon as my user base increases significantly.

The main part of my app generates a significant PDF file using TCPDF.

What I would like to do is pass off processing of the PDF form to another physical server so that it doesn't kill the processing ability of my web server but I have no idea how to go about that.

How do I pass off processing duties to another server with php?

Thanks!

Re: Pass off Processing To Another Server?

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:52 am
by Christopher

Re: Pass off Processing To Another Server?

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:15 pm
by JakeJ
Thank you very much, I'll look in to that!!!

Re: Pass off Processing To Another Server?

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:43 am
by dirkers
If you don't want to be dependent on a single central server to dole out the work, you might want to look at a cloud-based queue implementation, such as Amazon's SQS.

Just add a request to the queue and have one or more processing servers check the queue periodically. This will make for a very scalable solution.