John Siracusa wrote: [snip] >
But meanwhile, we're still open to alternatives. Surprisingly, there don't seem to be many (software) options. (A hardware load balancer is not an option at his time, but I'll also take any suggestions in that area :)
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So...suggestions? How are other people handling load balancing?
Squid in accelerator mode for ordinary http and the linux virtual server stuff for https. Works nicely for us (about a couple of million requests a day, mostly http). Andy -- Andy Osborne **************** "Vertical B2B Communities" Senior Internet Engineer Sift Group 100 Victoria Street, Bristol BS1 6HZ tel:+44 117 915 9600 fax:+44 117 915 9630 http://www.sift.co.uk