Re: load balancing with php/apache?

> > We use LVS on our website - it works great! We have 2 load balancers with the > > HA package and 6 PHP webservers running behind it (with a central DB server). > > Yes, I have heard very good things about LVS. Haven't had a chance to set > it up myself yet. Definitely something for the TODO list. LVS with linux-ha is a win-win situation. Even if you loose a LVS, the failover is transparent. The connections hang for about 5-15 seconds, then transfer over to the other machine. With the traffic that we have, we opted to use direct routing, this way there is no translation (thus no additional CPU on the LVS machine) needed for the answers; the web servers talk directly back to the client themselves. We were planning on using Local Directors, then cost became a major issue. I'm actually glad we did it this way, because personally I like envesting my knowledge in open solutions rather than learning proprietary OSs and strategies. Jeremy Jeremy Brand :: Sr. Software Engineer :: 408-245-9058 :: jeremy@nirvani.net http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more Get your own Free, Private email at http://www.smackdown.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "<body>" -- Quoted from Yahoo! homepage, http://www.yahoo.com