nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote .. > avi at 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 I have used LVS before. I wanted to use RHCS for an ISCSI-SAN setup, with GFS. LVS can work with RHCS. Cannot afford F5's. Am in the process of trying out RHCS with LVS. Otherwise I will fall back on LVS with Mysql replication across nodes.