My vote goes to appliance, but Filip is completely correct, this is a budget based decision.
The higher up in your architecture you deal with SSL the better in my experience. (especially in stateless farms) I would look into L2 caching (like EHCache + Hibernate or Terracotta) if you decide to build a LB yourself. Good luck Dwayne On 8/31/07, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bajistaman wrote: > > And what about SSL?, > it sure makes life easier to have the LB take care of it, and if you > look at it from a signed certificate licensing standpoint, cheaper. > verisign and the other dudes, like to charge for "per-box" you wish to > install the cert on. > > it is better to let the load balancer to take care of it > > or every node in the farm? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Johann > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
