----- Original Message ----- | Hi All, | | 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. | | Right now, the whole site is is 400gb of video, HTML5, Apache, PHP, | MySQL, | runs on a single box with 16gb of RAM and mirrored /var/www/html | (2x1tb raid | level drives). I have a Comcast 50/10 connection, 5 statics and I am | seeing | about 125 unique visitors a day. The site runs fine, but in | anticipation of | more traffic as well as a learning experience I would like to load | balance. | | Obviously I need a second server just like the one it is running on | now. I | will probably spec something out that is capable of 32gb of RAM. | | What about a dedicated load balancing device? What specs should this | be? How | much RAM, HD, processor? It is sufficient to buy something with a GB | NIC and | say 4gb of RAM? Can one go slower but more RAM, small HD? I don't | really | quite know how intensive a task this decision making process is for | the load | balancer.. | | Right now, as example, I have an Untangle Firewall and it runs on a | old AMD | with 2gb RAM, GB NIC and it seems to do just fine. | | My local computer store has several P4 2.8ghz with 2GB of RAM for like | $99.... | | Can anyone enlighten me on specs, proper setup, caveats....? | | -Jason | | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS at centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos While not CentOS or even GNU/Linux related you can also have a look at OpenBSDs relayd. See http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relayd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier