OK. I agree that doing it in hardware is more expensive (as you have
no choice but to involve a vendor), but doing it in software is
relatively easy; high-performance servers that can act as
intermediaries are getting pretty common, and pretty performant.
Cheers,
On 17/09/2008, at 9:25 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Mark Nottingham wrote:
But I agree that you might be able to use existing URL-based front-
end
load-balancing kit, and that might reduce the cost of implementation
substantially.
Is there a hidden assumption there that this is done in hardware?
No. By "kit" I mean readily available hardware and/or software, which
does URL-based affinity HTTP request forwarding for load balancing.
-- Jamie
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