On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Rodrigo Benzaquen <[email protected]> wrote: > HA PROXY is open spurce and works pretty well. Also you can do load balance > based on HAS URL if you want.
aye, the development is pretty active also. i asked for a consistent hash option in haproxy and got one in less than 2 weeks -only available in the dev version for now. > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc > > _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
