From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 12:44:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from daemon.kingsqueak.org (cc737825-a.etntwn1.nj.home.com [24.3.202.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E578437B506 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by daemon.kingsqueak.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 303A516E1B; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:43:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:43:19 -0400 From: Chris To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Chris , Steve Lewis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaling Apache? Message-ID: <20000828154319.A5393@daemon.kingsqueak.org> Reply-To: Chris References: <20000828114314.Y1209@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000828150743.D4912@daemon.kingsqueak.org> <20000828121932.E1209@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000828121932.E1209@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 12:19:32PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 12:19:32PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 12:03:41PM -0700, Steve Lewis wrote: > > > keeps request overhead lower (logging and caching tricks) but the > > > trade-offs in server-side scripting support could kill that. > > > > > > Does anyone know of a good FAQ or other resource on load balancing with > > > apache? > > * Chris [000828 12:07] wrote: > > Look into an Alteon 180e or similar hardware solution...makes this truly > > simple to do...want another server...sure just add it to the VIP and off > > it goes. And because of the VIP they can all have the same > > hostname...makes server replication even simpler > > Then again one might want to investigate a server solution that > could cut hardware and space costs by a factor of 2 at least. > > -Alfred Such as...? Roxen, very very kewl if you want to use RXML and you have no application tier to integrate. Though it is a tremendous pig compared to Apache . What else? Nothing I'd trust with a production tier, nothing lighter/faster than Apache that is well supported for use with an application tier in an Enterprise environment. Also with 1U servers, ~45 of which will fit in a single vertical rack, fully hardware load balanced... how can you beat that bang/buck/space even with the cost of a hardware load balancing solution? To run the other solutions, Roxen, NES/iPlanet you need the 'bigger hammer' approach and man E250's are expensive to start stacking up. Of course using Apache in this method, you will need an application tier that is capable of clustering and state keeping. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message