Matthew Berk wrote: > Folks, > > Am fresh off the chapters dealing with load balancing in Practical > mod_perl, but wanted to ask if folks have had any success using LVS in > lieu of the recommended Squid or if anyone's had any success with other > OS projects like Balance. Personally, I'm used to shelling out $$$$ for > Cisco, F5 or another device, but this time around want to stick to the > open source world. We're graduating from round-robin DNS to something > more intelligent, but I want to be sensitive to the the fact that we're > using MP exclusively. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
you might want to check out the combination of backhand (LB) and wackamole (HA): http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/ http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/ while there are probably people more familiar with backhand than I am, I'm not sure how widespread wackamole is. but it was really impressive looking at the talk theo gave last year. but then again, most things he does are impressive :) --Geoff
