[UPHPU] Load Balancing - Software, Hardware

[William Attwood]

I'll only be load balancing Apache requests. DNS will be master/slaved
across 2 servers, and won't be hit hard; my only concern is the Apache
servers serving up PHP.
-Will

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, thebigdog <bigdog at venticon.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
> on this i would say we need some more information. if you are just load
> balancing 3 web servers you could start with a software solution and then
> move to a hardware if you need to. I really like barracuda for hardware load
> balancers.  for software there are numerous options...but if you could
> provide some additional information on the services that you have on your
> web servers that would be ideal. Some things that come to mind are dns and
> apache load balancing along with some other network items that you could do
> like managing your media in a geographical way.
>
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> thebigdog
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