Re: load balancing with php/apache?

check out http://www.coyotepoint.com/ only $4000! does 512 clients! can even stick clients through the famous AOHell proxies! cheap! :) -- Alex Black, Head Monkey enigma@turingstudio.com The Turing Studio, Inc. http://www.turingstudio.com vox+510.666.0074 fax+510.666.0093 Saul Zaentz Film Center 2600 Tenth St Suite 433 Berkeley, CA 94710-2522 > From: jeremy@nirvani.net (jeremy brand) > Newsgroups: php.general > Date: 13 Jan 2001 12:16:09 -0800 > Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >