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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:14:47 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "Alexander A. Radunsky" <shurick@zenon.net>
To:        User Richard <rg@plusline.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: LoadBalancing
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000814151447.shurick@zenon.net>
In-Reply-To: <3997CA8C.C6E6A6DB@plusline.net>

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On 14-Aug-00 User Richard wrote:

Good $Greetings_time,

> there are few solutions for load balancing for
> heavy loaded web sites (Cisco LocalDirector, BigIP...).

The freedom of choice depends on the type of content you want to accelerate.
For example, if you have just big website with many small files the simpliest
solution is to establish farm of webservers with identical content and deploy
round-robin scheme through DNS or Apache's mod_rewrite in reverse-proxy mode
(see Ralf's comments in documentation for this mod). Apparently if your
content have predictive trend in hits to one or more specific areas you can
accelerate just that areas using mod_rewrite or any other reverse proxy like
Squid, Oops, Harvest etc. Maybe the other way resides in dynamic routing with
gated distributing IP packets (not requests) depends on the routes costs... And
finally, if you would like to accelerate SSL content, perharps the best way
which depends on the balance of cost and efficiency is use just one powerful
dedicated webserver which doing only two things: making SSL connections itself
and retrieving all of the data from intranet farm of the webservers with heavy
dynamic content where CGI's, SSI, PHP, WebDB and/or many of the other possible
dynamic solutions resides.

> Does anyone have eperiences with software based solutions under FreeBSD? 

These solutions can be deployed under many of the modern systems, not just
FreeBSD.

> Which could be recommended?

Any of the many which fits your needs the best way =)

Good luck.

-- 
Alexander A. Radunsky   AR8-RIPN  AAR2-RIPE
Zenon N.S.P. Moscow, Russia  http://www.zenon.ru/


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