All this talk of mod_proxy has me wondering: What's the conventional
wisdom regarding the speed up or load balancing of a server running
something like Apache::ASP, or anything else that tracks sessions?
If you split things between a proxy and a mod_perl server, the first hit
would have to go through to the mod_perl server to initiate the session,
but subsequent requests which may not need the session info could be
sent to the proxy. Is that possible?
Further, what are the standard ways to load balance a session-tracking
app across multiple servers when the sessions are stored in memory and a
given user has to be consistently sent back to the same machine? Can
round-robin DNS be counted on to send people back to the same server
over the life of a given session?
Dan
