On 1/13/03 11:12 AM, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Siracusa wrote: >> So...suggestions? How are other people handling load balancing? > > With hardware load balancers. :-)
Sure, rub it in ;) > You forgot to include the information about number of servers, > requests per second at peak times, reponse sizes, etc etc. * four servers * peak of 30 hits/sec (fluctuates though) * response sizes vary: most are less than 20K, but a significant minority are 500K-5MB (i.e. file downloads) But really, stability is out #1 concern right now. Slowdown under load is much more desirable that "error under load" or "lock-up under load" :) -John
