Hi John, I did not mean to disparage Apache LB solutions. It clearly has its place and will serve well. I use them for lab work when I need to test a solution behind an LB. It all depends on your corporate standards, DNS and IP management, business continuity plan, cross datacenter failover and the like. I have never thought of using Apache LB outside the lab. I am not sure if it is even allowed here. However, our corporate LB is now brand XXX (don't really care what it is because that is what I am supposed to use). I have used Apache, F5, LD, CSS and DD. Being a user, I never needed to build my own LB using Apache for a production Application with critical importance. I use what the network guys say I should use. They register the aliases, define the VIPs, and support/config the infrastructure devices.
----- Original Message ----- From: John Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 04:52 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Recommendations for Load Balancers and Mid-Tier Servers Rich, Apache is arguably the most widely used web server in the world, and does a great job of load balancing. I've done a lot of work for investment banks that can only be described as "very corporate", and Apache has been a key component in their infrastructure. The problem with Apache and Midtier is mod_jk. I wrote an article on this last week. John -- Single Sign On for AR System http://www.javasystemsolutions.com/jss/ssoplugin _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
