From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 24 7:27:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mimas.gigguardian.com (mimas.gigguardian.com [216.52.21.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB3037B41E for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:27:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.gigguardian.com ([24.219.11.216]) by mimas.gigguardian.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3OEPnn07014 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vhm3@hades.gigguardian.com) Received: from localhost (vhm3@localhost) by hades.gigguardian.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3OEOMI92412; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vhm3@hades.gigguardian.com) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:24:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Chip McClure To: Emre Bastuz Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HTTP Load Balancing and Availability Solutions In-Reply-To: <3CC6A5D2.3070701@emre.de> Message-ID: <20020424072154.W83922-100000@hades.gigguardian.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Emre, I use one, in the ports collection, called "pen". It does a very good job at load balancing, and has the features that you'll need. Great little app. :) Chip - ----- Chip McClure Sr. Unix Administrator GigGuardian, Inc. http://www.gigguardian.com/ - ----- On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Emre Bastuz wrote: > Hi, > > I´m looking for a software that does the job of accepting > HTTP request as a webserver and then distributes these > to other servers - depending on which one is currently up. > > We have a customer who wants some kind of failsafe solution. > Load balacncing is not the main issue - instead we want to > configure one main webserver, in case this one fails the > software is supposed to switch over to the other webserver > for HTML file retrieval. > > After some quick and dirty lookup in Google I found this > software called "FreeQualizer" (http://www.coyotepoint.com), > which sounds nice but is not free. > > If it´s remarkably good, it might be worth giving a try. > Anyone got any experience with this one ? > > Before chosing this one though, I´d like to know if there > are other well known and reliable solutions out there. > > Apache with mod_proxy/mod_rewrite also seems like an alternative > (I found this interesting article on > http://www.devshed.com/Talk/Books/ProApache/page6.html) - I´m > not sure if the mod_proxy/mod_rewrite stuff only works for load > balancing or also can handle outages of the 'backend' servers. > > Any suggestions ? Ideas ? URL´s ? :) > > Thanks, > > Emre > > > -- > Emre Bastuz > info@emre.de > http://www.emre.de > UIN: 561260 PGP Key ID: 0xEA0E2CA1 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iQA/AwUBPMbAFpuKtP8CSC69EQIqRwCfTWClmxkcJFBl5gpIktgjkOrtU/MAoLlY Sx1a6o2mzpP2iZ2NzzHt9CNF =ijGh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message