I was wondering this myself (we use F5) but if he doesn't have the budget for a redundant pair of F5's )they are pricey...) then he may be trying to get resilience this way....
That said a single front end apache server with mod_proxy and load balanced across N nodes (depending on front end firewall too) might be simpler overall....
2010/1/8 nate centos@linuxpowered.net
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.
Depends on the size of your cluster..
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/browse/rh-cs-en/pt-lvs.html
nate
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