You have to use mod_proxy_balancer + Varnish? HA + Ldirectord + Memcached + Apache can do everything you want there and a little more.
The HA solution have several possible setups that, combined with DNS Failover can make your setup almost perfect. 2012/6/21 Anurag Kapur <[email protected]> > Hi, > > Apologies in advance for a fairly high level question which may not be the > norm of this users group. > > I am trying to understand options and eventually choose a software load > balancer for a project I am working on. I am specifically interested in the > capabilities of two options - Apache HTTPD mod_proxy_balancer and Varnish ( > https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/LoadBalancing) from the following > perspectives: > > 1. Feature set supported like - session stickyness, failover from one node > to another in the load balancer farm etc > 2. Performance/throughput > 3. Stability of the solution > 4. Ease of use or time required to setup for typical http(s) load > balancing use cases > > I did try googling for information for a couple of hours but was not > successful in finding a good comparison. So I am looking at your experience > to get some pointers. > > Any help would be highly appreciated. > > Kind Regards > Anurag > -- []'s Filipe Cifali Stangler
