Hello, I run a website on which one particular Perl script receives a lot of hits. It is called download.pl, and it enables my clients to download audio content for their radio shows.

During peak hours, download.pl can receive a hundred hits every minute. download.pl then starts running slowly, as does the rest of the web server.

I am wondering what the best way to balance the load to download.pl would be.

One idea I came up with would be to create ten separate download Perl scripts called download1.pl, download2.pl, download3.pl and so forth. Then, download.pl would act as a switch and call one of the ten Perl scripts by using the system command. Would this help?

Or, maybe it's simply time to get a second web server altogether and balance the load between two servers rather than between ten separate Perl scripts?

I would be curious to get your feedback here. Thanks so much for your help.

In reply to best way to balance load to a Perl script by keiusui

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