On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Allan Brand <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm new to Varnish and I've seen a number of discussions where Varnish > is used in conjunction with a load balancer in the following manner: > [LB] -> [Varnish] -> [www 1-n] > > I'm guessing that Varnish is running locally on the www hosts? If > not, Is there any reason why placing Varnish in front of the load > balancers instead would not be ideal? > [Varnish] -> [LB} -> [www 1-n]
Usually you use LB in front of varnish for high availability cases. Then, if a varnish fails, the other will take over all the work. But there's no problem using Varnish as a load balancer as it does a great job, as others said in this thread. But you must pay attention to the fail over/load balancing on the varnish as well :-) -- []'s Hugo www.devin.com.br _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
