Re: preferred LB methods

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Matthew Berk wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Am fresh off the chapters dealing with load balancing in Practical
> mod_perl, but wanted to ask if folks have had any success using LVS in
> lieu of the recommended Squid or if anyone's had any success with other
> OS projects like Balance. Personally, I'm used to shelling out $$$$ for
> Cisco, F5 or another device, but this time around want to stick to the
> open source world. We're graduating from round-robin DNS to something
> more intelligent, but I want to be sensitive to the the fact that we're
> using MP exclusively. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

you might want to check out the combination of backhand (LB) and wackamole (HA):

  http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/
  http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/

while there are probably people more familiar with backhand than I am, I'm
not sure how widespread wackamole is.  but it was really impressive looking
at the talk theo gave last year.  but then again, most things he does are
impressive :)

--Geoff