On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:31:27PM -0700, John L. Singleton wrote:
>> I'm a little mystified as to the usefulness of this as well. I mean,
>> what does hashing the domain name solve that just balancing back to a
>> bunch of Apache instances with virtual hosting turned on doesn't? Are
>> you saying that you have domains like en.example.com, fr.example.com
>> and you want them all to be sticky to the same backend server when
>> they balance? If that's the case, I could see that being useful if the
>> site in question were doing some sort of expensive per-user asset
>> generation that was being cached on the server. Is this what you are
>> talking about?
>
> There are proxies which can do prefetching, and in this case, it's
> desirable that all requests for a same domain name pass through the
> same cache.
>
so are you saying haproxy -> cache -> backend? (in which case, you
would be talking more about an ISP, i think? or does anybody here not
running an ISP actually do this (I would be interested to know))
-jf
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