Re: [CentOS] clustering and load balancing Apache

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:50:34 -0800 Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org wrote:

I was just curious about performance comparisons between different types of load balancers in general.

It's hard to say ... you usualy use load balancers to achieve higher availability and put as little as possible in the way of traffic when you want performance (save for the most expensive hw load balancers).

For Apache, I had great success with mod_backhand, available at www.backhand.org iirc. It's one of the smartest balancers, but only available for apache 1.3. I've heard 1.3 is still faster than 2.x in many cases.

But I'm nginx only now for a few years now ;)