idea - looking for input

[Kevin P. Foote]

Some recent shib-list threads and comments hatched this idea.. so 
bare with me. (if it sucks so be it :)

Seems clustering is a normal topic here - as seen in the archives. We 
all have varying ideas to its usefulness and what technologies work 
best if its used etc.

It seems that this can be a pain spot or at least a hurdle to those 
new to the product. Do they need to run a cluster? If I don't have
multiple servers how many logins can this service handle?

I'm wondering if it would be helpful to have a page on the wiki where 
those running an active IdP and interested could add a description 
of their IdP configurations. The main idea being to give a new individual 
a gauge of where to start HW/service wise.


Something to the effect of

Name: someu.edu
IdPLogins/day: 50000
Hardware/VM: vm, 
OS: rhel5, 
Memory: 4g, 
Cluster: yes, 
IdP-Nodes: 2,
Clustering Method: memcache, 
SSL Offload: yes, 
Loadbalancer: hardware yes,


Again just an idea... I know much of this is live and learn as well 
as dependent on userbase / environment.

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thanks
  kevin.foote