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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Hardware order
From:       Alexandre Dulaunoy <adulau () foo ! be>
Date:       2003-12-29 10:43:02
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Arnaud G wrote:

> If you want to put a load balancer in front (good idea), you should put 
> 2 LB using vrrp (or clustering) otherwise we end up again with the usual 
> single point of failure that is currently causing so much pain. Of 
> course one box will be doing nothing but in case of cash it will be 
> transparent. The best will be to have dedicated load balancer like cisco 
> CSM or alteon web switch but those boxes are too expensive. Maybe ebay 
> can help?

PF/OpenBSD  + CARP  can do  load-balancing quite  easily  with keeping
session safe. 

Keepalived/LVS - GNU/Linux can do that too.

More  easy  to  maintain  than  proprietary blackbox  (like  Cisco  or
Alteon) and you can use simple 1U Server for that.

Just my .02 EUR,

have a nice day and thanks a lot for the good work,

adulau

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