> > > I'm not that good when it comes to networking and understanding tcpip. > > > > Is this somethign I can pickup fairly quickly? > > How much hand holding does a haproxy server take? > > yes. haproxy's documentation is awesome and extensive. you should read it side by side with rfc793. it's not useless knowledge even if you decide to user other similar tool. you'll get better hands-on understanding of how tcp and http _really_ work while playing around with various tresholds and timeouts which is critical knowledge for operating network infra. You'll also get familiarized with 90% of the core features enterprise/hardware load balancers pack. ELB included.
One thing that's cool about ELB , depending of your end user's geograhical location, is that you can deploy very easy early ssl termination points across the globe. Cheers from a happy -dev17 user, Lorin
