On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:31:27PM -0700, John L. Singleton wrote: > I'm a little mystified as to the usefulness of this as well. I mean, > what does hashing the domain name solve that just balancing back to a > bunch of Apache instances with virtual hosting turned on doesn't? Are > you saying that you have domains like en.example.com, fr.example.com > and you want them all to be sticky to the same backend server when > they balance? If that's the case, I could see that being useful if the > site in question were doing some sort of expensive per-user asset > generation that was being cached on the server. Is this what you are > talking about?
There are proxies which can do prefetching, and in this case, it's desirable that all requests for a same domain name pass through the same cache. Regards, Willy
