jordanmoore
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I'm testing a few ideas at the moment, using Apache to create a home server on the Local host.
I'm stuck at one stage, and can't figure out what I should do.
Long Explanation:
I have the main server, which has all the files on, and processes the incoming request, etc.
I wish to keep as much of the processor and ram free as possible for use by Apache to give users a quicker experience (especially with PHP reading large text files).
So that's all fine, the problem arises when I wish to use some "cron jobs", I use that term loosely as what I really wish to do is have a task that is on an endless loop, as soon as it completes it does it again.
Now, this task will be fairly demanding on system resources, and consequently lower the servers performance.
With this I thought the best idea would be to use a second computer to perform the task, so the server still has as many resources available as it usually would, and the cron jobs are being performed.
This is where the problem is.
I can't find any way that the computer can get access to the hard drive other than sharing it over the network (which could be insecure and use up resources right?).
Do you guys know any ways of doing this, which is fast and uses minimal resources?
Short Explanation:
How can I let a second computer access the files on the server to perform tasks, without reducing any performance on the server? (HTTP not an option).
I'm stuck at one stage, and can't figure out what I should do.
Long Explanation:
I have the main server, which has all the files on, and processes the incoming request, etc.
I wish to keep as much of the processor and ram free as possible for use by Apache to give users a quicker experience (especially with PHP reading large text files).
So that's all fine, the problem arises when I wish to use some "cron jobs", I use that term loosely as what I really wish to do is have a task that is on an endless loop, as soon as it completes it does it again.
Now, this task will be fairly demanding on system resources, and consequently lower the servers performance.
With this I thought the best idea would be to use a second computer to perform the task, so the server still has as many resources available as it usually would, and the cron jobs are being performed.
This is where the problem is.
I can't find any way that the computer can get access to the hard drive other than sharing it over the network (which could be insecure and use up resources right?).
Do you guys know any ways of doing this, which is fast and uses minimal resources?
Short Explanation:
How can I let a second computer access the files on the server to perform tasks, without reducing any performance on the server? (HTTP not an option).