From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 14 4:15:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from shurick.fix.aha.ru (shurick.fix.aha.ru [195.2.64.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FAF37B982 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 04:15:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shurick@shurick.fix.aha.ru) Received: (from shurick@localhost) by shurick.fix.aha.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00381; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:14:48 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from shurick) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3997CA8C.C6E6A6DB@plusline.net> X-Comments: shurick@home Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:14:47 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Zenon N.S.P. From: "Alexander A. Radunsky" To: User Richard Subject: RE: LoadBalancing Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message