Re: [nznog] Web Load Balancers

Do Foundry no longer exist in this space? They're called Brocade now, but when I used to do this sort of thing lots they were the guys to beat. Their ServerIron 4G boxes are good and would do what you want. Also let's not CC AusNOG or other lists with this sort of thing. When their mail server starts working there's going to be either a whole bunch of bounces, or a weird disjointed conversation over there, or more likely both. Keep it to one list yeah? On 12/03/2010, at 3:37 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:24 AM, McDonald Richards wrote:

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Cisco CSS11k – stay away! 10 years ago it was a piece of crap and I’m sure it still is today.

It's EoS/EoL, anyways.

The current Cisco load-balancer is called the ACE. It isn't optimized for Internet environments, and I've worked with several operators who had bad experiences with it in Internet-facing environments.

F5 and some other company whose name I can't currently remember are generally considered the leaders in this space.

Squid is a very useful reverse-proxy cache, and one should always position reverse-proxy caches in front of one's Web servers, but it's not really renowned as a load-balancer, per se. Here's an open-source load-balancing system lots of folks use:

http://www.backhand.org/

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