Thanks! Does Varnish support least-connections or weighted least-connections load balancing?
Also, in the scenario of placing a LB in front of Varnish, is the Varnish host a dedicated machine or is it running locally on the web servers? Allan On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Hugo Cisneiros (Eitch) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- --------------------------------------- Allan (208) 977-6014 (eFax) _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
