On 05-feb-09, at 03:09, pub crawler wrote: > We are new to Cherokee.
Welcome :-) > Looking to use the reverse proxy features of Cherokee (under Ubuntu) > to protect and improve the performance of our application servers > (Windows based (IIS and ColdFusion)). > > Currently, we have simple DNS load balancing going to between two > application servers that split load on our busy website. > > We want to use the reverse proxy feature of Cherokee for load > balancing but also to shield our two older Windows/IIS machines from > direct access. > > First question is - is this a typical and reasonable job for Cherokee? Sure it is. > Second question is - will Cherokee handle Gzip compression of the > outgoing data to viewers or should that be done on our app servers? Cherokee can work in both ways; it's up to you where you prefer the content to be gzip'ed. Cherokee can handle compressed replies from your back-end servers, but it can also compress the outgoing responses if you prefer your application server to reply raw content. -- Octality http://www.octality.com/ _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
