HA PROXY is open spurce and works pretty well. Also you can do load balance based on HAS URL if you want.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Bendik Heltne <[email protected]> wrote: > > A couple more questions: > > > > (1) Are they any good strategies for splitting load across Varnish > > front-ends? Or is the common practice to have just one Varnish server? > > We have 3 servers. A bit overkill, but then we have redundancy even if > one fail. I guess 2 is the minimum option if you have an important > site and 99,5% uptime guarantee. > > > (2) How do people avoid single-point-of-failure for Varnish? Do people > > run Varnish on two servers, amassing similar local caches, but put > > something in front of the two Varnishes? Or round-robin-DNS? > > We use a loadbalancer from F5 called BigIP. It's no exactly free, but > there are free alternatives that will probably do much of the basic > stuff: > http://lcic.org/load_balancing.html > > - Bendik > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc >
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