Brian, Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your reply. OK, so what's good? For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent. It > handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows > dynamic adding/removing of servers, as well as maintenance modes. > It's very easy to install and configure. I'm using is as the backend > to apache that is acting as an SSL termination point. It's been very > high performing for us and I know a lot of big sites use it as well. > The only question I would have with it is handling of video, as we > only use it for typical web traffic, just high bandwidth stuff like > that. > > Also, make sure any load balancer you have is redundant and has some > kind of failover, using something like pacemaker, heartbeat, etc... 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. Minimal specs and they excellent specs if you have thoughts.. I really don'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. -Jason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110304/2bf5dc9e/attachment-0005.html>