Re: Apache route requests to two or more servers

[Mike Patterson <mike () snowcrash ca>]

On 2011/07/13 8:49 AM, Robin Wood wrote:
> On 13 July 2011 07:57, Jim Halfpenny <jim.halfpenny () gmail com> wrote:
> > It depends on what you want to achieve. You could write a perl/php/asp
> > script to replay request data to multiple servers but I am not sure
> > what you would want from a module that does this. You could modify
> > mod_proxy_balancer to play the requests to multiple servers instead of
> > load balancing.
>
> I like the sound of the ruby proxy so going to try that first, if I
> can't get that working then I'll have a look at mod_proxy_balancer and
> see what I can do with it.

If you're doing this for the purposes of spreading load out... just make
sure your proxy doesn't become the weak link rather than the backend
webservers. :-) I've never been impressed by the performance of WEBrick.
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