> Well, I am still open to suggestions. Like I said, 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. The last two least > are not possible with hardware only from my understanding.
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