Re: preferred LB methods

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Leonard
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-driv

Re: preferred LB methods

2005-02-10 Thread Ron Savage
Hi FolksHere's a post I captured some time in the distant past:o Balance and Pound. I tried Balance first since itwas written in C, had a small footprint, and had very few features (it'sonly a tcp proxy with round robin balancing and fai

Re: preferred LB methods

2005-02-10 Thread Malcolm J Harwood
On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:54 am, Matthew Berk wrote: > 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 Well, I can't claim success yet, as we haven't gone into produc

Re: preferred LB methods

2005-02-10 Thread Geoffrey Young
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

preferred LB methods

2005-02-10 Thread Matthew Berk
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,