Multiserver setup with Flarum?

Magnus_Lind

I've been playing around a bit with Flarum on a single server with good results so far. Now I'm wondering if it's possible to host flarum in a multi server environment, more specifically:

Nginx-1.19 + php-fpm7.4 will run on every server with identical configuration
Syncthing peer to peer live sync will be used to sync the web root directory
MariaDB 10.4 + Galera will keep a multi master database in sync to allow each node to connect to the database locally.

I've tried this approach for some other sites, mostly less complex than Flarum with good results, but how would Flarum work in an environment like described above? any pros or cons? has anyone actually tried that or similar for horizontal scaling?

luceos

Magnus_Lind there's no issue with your tech proposal. Just make sure cache is centrally stored (redis) and you create js and CSS ahead of the first hit (see ext).

Magnus_Lind

Thanks for the advice, cache is my biggest concern. I'm not familiar with redis but I understand it's some kind of database. Are there any other alternatives available? i.e running without cache for instance or store it in the mysql database instead of the filesystem?