>OUCH kinda sounds like a step backwards on a couple levels. Of course I am >partial to linux on a performance level but the step back from Hardware to >software loadbalancing I just do not understand. > >~Eric
Well, there are a couple reasons why we want to try to use a software load balancing solution, but I am open to suggestions. The first reason is that we have having problems getting even distrubution with our current hardware solution. On a day-to-day basis my SeeFusion stats revealed to me that our traffic is usually very lopsided towards one server (random). We are using an older Foundry ServerIron balancer, and I do suspect it may need some settings simply tweaked, but in this particular shop the programmers are hands-off that kind of stuff and we are tired of fighting over it. No matter what the hardware guys try, the distribution is horrible and we even had consultant come in and help them. At any rate, we are tired of screwing with it. Second reason: Our load balancer won't let you use a sticky age of more than 60 minutes. The requirements for our internal app is that users won't have their session expire for 12 hours. Well, every time they leave for lunch and come back, the load-balancer kicks them over to a new server where their session doesn't exist and they get logged out. Third reason: Our current solution doesn't let us seamlessly remove a server from the cluster, update and test it, then place it back in without logging everyone out who was on that server (sessions not shared). I realize that their may be some better solutions to some of these problems, but communication tends to be poor between the programmers and the hardware guys, so the more we can get this in our court (software vs hardware)the better chance we have a tweaking a a better configuration. I am still very interested, in suggestions though. Our main goals are to more evenly distribute our traffic, be able to share sessions among the servers so a user can switch servers without losing their session, and be able to pull servers out of the cluster during the day seamlessly. ~Brad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271832 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
