<div>Hi all</div><div><br></div><div><div>We would like to move our OpenCms website to a cloud platform with multiple production nodes, with the ability to fairly dynamically add and remove virtual servers to make the most of flexible cloud server resources. Currently our site uses OCEE clustering and replication, with a master content admin server replicating content to three static public facing cluster nodes. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have experience or ideas around having OpenCms on such a cloud platform, with the ability to add or remove nodes fairly dynamically?</div><div><br></div><div>We forsee problems including the following:</div>
<div>1. OCEE publishes content from our 'master' content editing server to slave nodes using an event driven model. If nodes are absent (eg taken out of the cluster), then they are not kept in synch.</div><div>2. If a new node is added, then how could we quickly synchronise the content with the master to get the node operational?</div>
<div>3. Config is done statically in xml files: if a node is taken away or added, then config files need to be updated and tomcat restarts done - it is not truly 'dynamic' as we would hope for in the cloud model.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance for any input!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Steve</div><div>Shine Technologies</div><br>