On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Chris Hanks <christopher.m.ha...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Huh. I remembered seeing somebody from Heroku say that they had their > Varnish servers set up in a hash ring, which I thought would mean this > kind of effect wouldn't happen, but I guess it does. It looks like > they have 10 Varnish servers going - if I use Apache Benchmark to hit > my server with 1000 simultaneous requests it hits my Rails app 10 > times before everything starts being served from Varnish. > This was their old setup. I don't know all the details, but with the hash ring, if Varnish would crash your dyno would crash along with it--or at least be inaccessible. Load balancing between several Varnish servers is supposed to be much more resilient to individual Varnish instances dropping. -- Larry Marburger Homeopathic Code Remedyologist -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to heroku@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
