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 _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
