On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Mangin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Till,
>
>> Unless you use the fair-loadbalancer-module in nginx -- and even that
>> one has a couple minor issues -- nginx based load balancing is no
>> better than DNS.
>>
>> The difference is that a "real" loadbalancer like pound or haxproxy
>> would route a request to the backend that has the least load and also
>> provide what is called "stickyness" (which is basically what your
>> patch does) and at the same time providing the failover in case the
>> backend is overloaded or becomes unavailable.
>
> I knew apache could proxy with "sticky session", I did not notice Pound had
> that feature, so I will have recall my previous mail :D
> It would seems that my path of least resistance is to simply replace nginx
> by pound for http/https proxying and just keep it for imap/pop load
> dispatching.
> I hate to be shown wrong :D

No worries! :D I also enjoy being 'right' for once... At your expense! ;)

>> http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Plugin_Hooks
>>
>> The bottom line is to use the plugin hooks. E.g. use login_after to
>> set your cookie. If you happen to need another hook, just let us know,
>> and we'll roll it in. :-)
>
> Thank you for the time you took to answer my email and clarify your
> statements.
>
> Should a configuration of pound for such deployment be added to the wiki ?
> (coming back to the point made about Daniel about helping roundcube users
> with their deployment).

Yeah, maybe we need a new 'performance' section. I'd welcome that very much!
If you want to start it -- please go for it. :)

Have a great weekend!

Till
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