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Tomcat test and production environment

What is the best design to have many enviroments for one web-app? Is it better to have multiple tomcat instances or multiple web-app instances deployed on one Tomcat server?

Solution

  • If one server can handle the load, I would said it's better to have just one Tomcat instance and deploy web-app multiple times if necessary.

    This way:

    1. You'll have only one server to take care of (secure, administer, backup).
    2. You share hardware resources among applications (RAM, DISK, CPU)