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RE: Server Redundancy
From: "John Ferriby" <john () ferriby com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:40:53 -0400
Rob Pickering said:
I've used both the route hack based and commercial NAT load balancers, and they both have their place.
Yes, one size does not fit all.
Commercial NAT based load balancers are able to do things like distribute requests according to actual measured server response characteristics. This is great if you have clusters of servers with different specs but want to extract the best performance under peak load from the whole cluster. It also helps if you are running complex services where individual servers can develop a pathological slow but not failing response for some reason. They are also able to do the kind of service polling as above and react quicker to a down server than one which relies on routing protocols.
Quite true. A product not mentioned in previous posts would be the Radware WSD, which has been great for my applications. See it at www.radware.com These come in distrubted flavors too. Also not mentioned previously would be the Netscaler, www.netscaler.com
If you are running complex web services (think expensive per server sw licences etc) then the investment in a pair of redundant load balancers for the front end to give more consistent performance under load as well as resilience can look very sane indeed.
Oh, yes. They make a lot of sense in large streaming environments. -John
Current thread:
- RE: Server Redundancy, (continued)
- RE: Server Redundancy Simon Hamilton-Wilkes (Aug 06)
- Re: Server Redundancy Steve Francis (Aug 06)
- RE: Server Redundancy Austad, Jay (Aug 06)
- Re: Server Redundancy Paul Vixie (Aug 06)
- Re: Server Redundancy Jason Robertson (Aug 06)
- Re: Server Redundancy Paul Vixie (Aug 07)
- Re: Server Redundancy Bill Woodcock (Aug 07)
- Re: Server Redundancy Simon Lockhart (Aug 07)
- Re: Server Redundancy Bill Woodcock (Aug 07)
- Re: Server Redundancy Rob Pickering (Aug 07)
- RE: Server Redundancy John Ferriby (Aug 07)
- Re: Server Redundancy Joe Abley (Aug 07)
- Re: Server Redundancy Paul Vixie (Aug 06)