I was wondering this myself (we use F5) but if he doesn't have the budget for a redundant pair of F5's )they are pricey...) then he may be trying to get resilience this way....
That said a single front end apache server with mod_proxy and load balanced across N nodes (depending on front end firewall too) might be simpler overall.... 2010/1/8 nate <[email protected]> > [email protected] wrote: > > > Is this the end of the road, for installing apache as a service with ONE > > public IP > > address?? > > You sure you have the right solution? Using RHCS for web serving > seems really complicated, I would use a load balancer instead. Myself > I have most experience with F5 gear but there is LVS on linux(never > used it). With load balancers you can often offload things like > SSL, compression, etc. It makes life much easier for scaling, since > you can have multiple systems serving content for the same public > IP, and add/remove more at will, really trivial to manage. > > Depends on the size of your cluster.. > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/browse/rh-cs-en/pt-lvs.html > > nate > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
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