On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:22:43PM -0500, Akins, Brian wrote: > Would it be more useful to have active healthchecking to backend servers? > Ie, periodically hit a url on each origin and mark them up/down based on > response. Only send traffic to up servers. I think mod_backhand does > something similar but much more complex (?). > Yes. Being able to check a URL seems more useful than plain ping. Even more useful would be recording the time a backend takes to answer a request and using that to distribute requests.
vh Mads Toftum -- http://soulfood.dk
