On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:24 AM, McDonald Richards wrote:
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/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins(a)arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken