avi@myphonebook.co.in wrote:
Is this the end of the road, for installing apache as a service with ONE public IP address??
You sure you have the right solution? Using RHCS for web serving seems really complicated, I would use a load balancer instead. Myself I have most experience with F5 gear but there is LVS on linux(never used it). With load balancers you can often offload things like SSL, compression, etc. It makes life much easier for scaling, since you can have multiple systems serving content for the same public IP, and add/remove more at will, really trivial to manage.
I've worked with a competitor of F5, Radware, and their load-balancing appliance was quite good. I would NOT recommend trying to use IBM's Tivoli WebSeal, which does software load balancing and Other Stuff....
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