Hey, Can someone give me some advice in setting up load balancing (and suggestions on some good cheap software load balancers.) I need a load balancer which can look at the incoming http request, query a session variable in the request, and based on the value, it should route the request to 1 of 10 servers. My questions are:
a) Is it even possible to inspect session variables, or do the Load balancers (LB) work at a higher level? Will it be a considerable performance hit to do this level of lookup? b) I have a hash which maps a value in the session variable to the server to which we need to route the request. What's the best way to maintain this hash? Keep it in memory in the LB? or have a database that stores these values? Which is better given that I have about 10 million values to choose from? c) Any suggestions on a good software load balancer that can do this? I would appreciate any help possible. Thanks, Ram -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
