4 Mar
2011
4 Mar
'11
12:51 a.m.
Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send traffic to the best server possible at the time. This was a proprietary system that I think was something Dell rebranded.
Does the app require session state maintenance (sticky connections)? If so then round robin DNS would essentially break your application. There are a lot of low cost load balancing solutions out there that would do a far better job in a production environment...see:
http://www.kemptechnologies.com
and
Both offer devices in the sub-$2,000 range.
-David