On Feb 26, 9:57 am, Raul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK making tons of progress learning here and getting pretty close to
> deployment and I need a some more guidance. I've been testing with Nginx as
> the proxy to my mongrel cluster but I also have a hardware load balancer.
> Now it seems to me that just using the load balancer to balance among all the
> mongrels in several clusters across several machines would be simple and work
> great. But if I want something other than Mongrel to serve up html, etc. or
> if I want to add in PHP support then I probably need to stick with something
> like Nginx or Apache as the proxy load balancer, correct?
Several issues here:
1) Can you bypass nginx with a hardware load balancer? Answer: yes
2) Is it as efficient? Not quite: nginx is *very* efficient at serving
static images.
3) How does this interact with non-Rails applications: Answer:
depends!
a) If you can balance on level-7 information (URL for instance)
then it's not a deal breaker
b) If you can put the different technologies at different IP
addresses, then it's not a deal breaker
c) If you want and/or need SSL and/or gzip compression, if your
load balancer provides these functions, then it's not a deal breaker.
#3 could go on and on.
> Just to give a bit bigger picture, I have a couple of machines on which I'm
> going to be running a couple of VMs on with Xen so I'll have at least 4 VMs
> and lots of mongrels too. Plus a development server with subversion and
> Capistrano to manage all the deployment.
Congrats on your technology stack. You're on a great path, IMHO. :-)
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