[CentOS] Load balancing...

Fri Mar 4 20:04:34 UTC 2011
James Nguyen <james at callfire.com>

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:25 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> James Nguyen wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd <slackmoehrle.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
> <snip>
>> if they think the solution requires a lot of CPU.  Memory wise I think
>> machines come with at least 4Gb these days.  That should do.  You can
>> probably both boxes for around 2k?
>>
>> You already know how much F5 or any of those guys cost per device. =)
>
> Hmmm... when the job I was at went with Radware, their price was
> significantly lower than F5, and I was impressed with the appliance. Nice
> little 1u box, not even a pizza box deep, as I recall.
>
>            mark
>
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Keep in mind you'd want at least 2 either it be appliances, devices or
server boxes.  The minimum for high availability is at least 2.
That's assuming your power and internet route is already highly
redundant as well.  ;)

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James H. Nguyen
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