Brian,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your reply.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

OK, so what&#39;s good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It<br>
handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows<br>
dynamic adding/removing of servers, as well as maintenance modes.<br>
It&#39;s very easy to install and configure.  I&#39;m using is as the backend<br>
to apache that is acting as an SSL termination point.  It&#39;s been very<br>
high performing for us and I know a lot of big sites use it as well.<br>
The only question I would have with it is handling of video, as we<br>
only use it for typical web traffic, just high bandwidth stuff like<br>
that.<br>
<br>
Also, make sure any load balancer you have is redundant and has some<br>
kind of failover, using something like pacemaker, heartbeat, etc...</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can you outline a bit specs for building a homemade box to run HAProxy? The HAProxy site is very extensive, but I did not see ideal specs at a quick glance. I will read in depth this weekend.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Minimal specs and they excellent specs if you have thoughts.. I really don&#39;t have an idea how intensive a task like this is. Nobody needs to log into the box, simply use the box for this purpose.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Jason </div></div></div>