[CentOS] load balancer recommendations

Ian Forde ianforde at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 00:40:25 UTC 2013


FYI - HAProxy is in EPEL, so it's a fairly easy installation to test.
 Especially in virtual environments... ;)

  -I

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Absolutely. The solution seems really robust and the price is not bad.
>
> In my case, however, this is not the answer as I need a solution that can
> be implemented in a whole variety of networks, including virtual ones.
>
> Thanks anyways.
>
> Boris.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 at yahoo.com
> >wrote:
>
> > From: Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>
> >
> > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 5:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations
> >
> > Joseph,
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Did you mean this:
> >
> > https://www.barracudanetworks.com/products/loadbalancer
> >
> > But this looks like an integrated solution, hardware and software. I am
> > just looking for the software part.
> >
> > Boris.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 at yahoo.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I've had pretty good luck with Barracuda load balancers..  You can
> > > configure them to keep a user session on a single server, which is
> often
> > > desired, and spread new connections to other servers as they arrive.
> > > The only problem I had with them, ironically, was they would crash if I
> > > purchased their "Live Updates" feature.  It's some sort of auto
> updating
> > > black-list service you can buy which helps protect the device and your
> > > resources.  But after I disabled that, the device has been rock solid.
> > > Been working great since about 2006.
> > >
> >
> > Yes.  It might be worth just getting the whole canned solution, though.
> > It is Linux based.
> > At the time, the thing was about $1800, which isn't really that bad, and
> > it just works.  There's a web interface to configure it, and it's
> > relatively intuitive.
> >
> >
> >
> >  If life gives you lemons, keep them-- because hey.. free lemons.
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