On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> I still like the idea of having mod_rewrite in a lightweight
> front end, and if the request turns out to be static at that
> point there isn't much point in dealing with proxying.
Or if the request is in the proxy cache...
> Has anyone tried putting software load balancing behind the front end
> proxy with something like eddieware, balance or ultra monkey? In that
> scheme the front ends might use an IP takeover failover and/or DNS
> load balancing and would proxy to what they think is a single back end
> server - then this would hit a tcp level balancer instead.
We use that setup with a hardware load balancer. It works very well.
- Perrin
