[buug] loadbalancing

[Aaron T Porter]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:17:46AM -0700, johnd wrote:
> I'm just curious as to the feasibility (in your guys' opinions) of setting
> up a Linux box (or cluster) to do this kind of stuff.
> 
> Would you just go with a dedicated device or set your own up with a Linux 
> box?

	I've run BigIP, Radware and Cisco load balancers as well as using
Linux Virtual Server. Unless you *really* need a gui config tool, I'd
strongly suggest Linux Virtual Server. It just plain works. For a very
small fraction of the cost of a single commercial box you can get a
failover linux cluster working. Using clustered celeron 400's and the
Direct Routing mode for LVS we pushed in excess of 50mb/s in web traffic.
The load on the LVS system never broke 0.01.