On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, William Attwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello-- > I'm diving into Load Balancing and am weighing Software vs. Hardware > solutions. Has anyone dealt heavily in Load Balancing, if so, what do you > use? We're just needing it for 3 web servers, currently.
I have an LVS (Linux Virtual Server) setup deployed, and it works very well. I have two backend web servers running in virtualized containers (OpenVZ) and the database is replicated. My LVS directors (the load balancers themselves) are small machines, and they can handle thousands of concurrent connections. The web servers handling the requests are much beefier, closer to your 2950 specs. Someone mentioned Barracuda load balancing hardware appliances and AFAIK they just slapped a web interface in front of an LVS-enabled kernel. LVS has a learning curve, but it will definitely handle your scenario well, and inexpensively. The decision to DYI or buy an appliance for these few web servers (3 isn't much) should be a time/money one, not much a technology one. Roberto _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
