Funny you should ask this - I got into a big discussion with Greg Whalin last week about this - the solution we use at Primedia is a BigIP, which is of course the expensive approach. Greg made the point that you can build a BigIP pretty easily, the only difference is the lack of fancy GUI-driven tools.
If you want, I can dig up more information on this.
--pete
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Matthew Berk wrote:
Folks,
Am fresh off the chapters dealing with load balancing in Practical mod_perl, but wanted to ask if folks have had any success using LVS in lieu of the recommended Squid or if anyone's had any success with other OS projects like Balance. Personally, I'm used to shelling out $$$$ for Cisco, F5 or another device, but this time around want to stick to the open source world. We're graduating from round-robin DNS to something more intelligent, but I want to be sensitive to the the fact that we're using MP exclusively. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Matthew
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