Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:04:23 +0100 From: Aris Stathakis <aris@caldera.com> To: Emre Bastuz <info@emre.de> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTTP Load Balancing and Availability Solutions Message-ID: <3CC6D787.6080504@caldera.com> References: <3CC6A5D2.3070701@emre.de>
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http://www.backhand.org/ Supposed to work on FreeBSD Aris Emre Bastuz wrote: > Hi, > > I4m 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 it4s remarkably good, it might be worth giving a try. > Anyone got any experience with this one ? > > Before chosing this one though, I4d 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) - I4m > 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 ? URL4s ? :) > > Thanks, > > Emre > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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