Re: Comparison to nginx

2013-02-02 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 12:49:59PM +, William Lewis wrote: > I couldn't agree more, but I'm really in need of more concrete reasons for > pushing back against this. It is very possible that nginx could do the job right for you. That said, the feedback we get from people who love haproxy for lo

Re: Comparison to nginx

2013-02-01 Thread Baptiste
Hi, The reason is simple: You need a load-balancer. HAProxy is a load-balancer with advanced features: many weighted algorithm, many different persistence type (even using application cookies), advanced reporting, etc... Nginx isn't, despite very basic features, a load-balancer. That said, it can

Re: Comparison to nginx

2013-02-01 Thread shouldbe q931
How about going the other way and fully commenting the config, sending it to them and asking them how they would implement all of the things that you are using in HAProxy in nginx. If they pass it back to you as "that's your job", then you can reasonably ask them that as you have a working solutio

RE: Comparison to nginx

2013-02-01 Thread Aleksandrs Andrijekno
s for same amount of requests and files. From: William Lewis [mailto:will...@netproteus.net] On Behalf Of William Lewis Sent: vrijdag 1 februari 2013 13:50 To: shouldbe q931 Cc: Steven Acreman; haproxy@formilux.org Subject: Re: Comparison to nginx I couldn't agree more, but I'm re

Re: Comparison to nginx

2013-02-01 Thread William Lewis
I couldn't agree more, but I'm really in need of more concrete reasons for pushing back against this. On Feb 1, 2013, at 12:40 PM, shouldbe q931 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:22 AM, William Lewis wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Its not a question of replacing nginx with haproxy. > The existing so

Re: Comparison to nginx

2013-02-01 Thread shouldbe q931
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:22 AM, William Lewis wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Its not a question of replacing nginx with haproxy. > The existing solution was dns round robin directly to application servers, > that then proxy on to a different node if they didn't hold the required > state (which is horrib

Re: Comparison to nginx

2013-02-01 Thread William Lewis
Hi Steve, Its not a question of replacing nginx with haproxy. The existing solution was dns round robin directly to application servers, that then proxy on to a different node if they didn't hold the required state (which is horrible) I've deployed haproxy in front of this setup but I'm now bei

Re: Comparison to nginx

2013-02-01 Thread Steven Acreman
Hi William, I'm not sure I'd change anything that wasn't causing me pain. If nginx is working nicely then there are probably other things that aren't that are more rewarding of attention. Are there any pain points that you currently have? Maybe haproxy could improve some of those. Thanks, Steve

Comparison to nginx

2013-02-01 Thread William Lewis
Hi I'm looking for some advice in comparing haproxy to nginx. I've been happily using haproxy for all my load balancing needs for the past few years and in my opinion I think its great. I've recently been working to deploy it my latest role but am coming up against resistance from supporters o