[CentOS] Load Balancing

[Charles Lacroix]

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 13:38, Dan Trainor wrote:
> Chris Mauritz wrote:
> > Mace Eliason wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> We are starting a new project, and are trying to decide the best way
> >> to proceed.  We want to setup a LAMP configuration using Centos,
> >> something we have been doing in the past with great success.
> >>
> >> The question is load balancing.  We antisipate the potential for the
> >> system to receive 500,000 requests/ day with in the next year.  We
> >> want to plan for that extra load now as we start the project.  What
> >> would you suggest for setups for multiple servers for redundancy and
> >> load balancing?
> >>
> >> I have setup MySQL replication and that works fine but what about the
> >> rest of the system.  I know it is quite simple to setup with windows
> >> 2003 server.
> >>
> >> Would a cluster be the way to go?  Ideally we would like 2-? severs
> >> setup that are all identical and sharing the load as need be, and if
> >> one fails users would notice nothing.
> >>
> >> I have also thought of just looking for a hosting company that offers
> >> load balancing servers and not worry about it but we like to have
> >> control.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any suggestions
> >
> > Perhaps this will help get you started:
> >
> > http://www.howtoforge.com/high_availability_loadbalanced_apache_cluster
> >
> > Cheers,
>
> Hi -
>
> FWIW, I've been toying around with this as well.  Right now I'm trying
> to decide which shared storage mechanism we'll be using for the nodes
> themselves.  We need to keep the data consistant across 10+ machines,
> which will be serving this content.
>
> If this hasn't been mentioned before, I've been using LVS for a while,
> with a whole lot of success.  It's smart, scalable, and works quite
> well.  If you're looking for an open-source load balancing and
> distribution system, I highly suggest you investigate this.
>
> If anyone wouldn't mind chiming in with some ideas, I'd greatly
> appreciate it.  I'm sure others would, too,
>
> Thanks!-
> -dant

Yes ideas is good, i'm currently evaluation cluster solutions for dynamic 
php/mysql website. 

let the ideas flow :)