Re: preferred LB methods

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Funny you should ask this - I got into a big discussion with Greg Whalin 
last week about this - the solution we use at Primedia is a BigIP, which 
is of course the expensive approach.  Greg made the point that you can 
build a BigIP pretty easily, the only difference is the lack of fancy 
GUI-driven tools.

If you want, I can dig up more information on this.

 	--pete



On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, 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.
>
> Matthew
>

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Peter Leonard
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