Niall O Broin wrote:
> What are people using as web proxy servers? I've used pound in the past,
> but have been hearing good reports of haproxy. My particular purpose is
> to proxy requests from the world to a cluster of web servers, as against
> using a proxy like squid for a number of clients (I gather squid can also
> do what I want though I've never used it in that way).
I believe Oracle use Apache for this very purpose in their enterprise
application server, so if its good enough for them, I'd say it should suit
your needs just fine, but if you're clustering you'd probably be better off
nowadays with a layer7 switch which can make load balancing decisions rather
than just a random round robin type routing where you could actually
overload one node in the cluster if there is something more advanced than
html serving going on.
Paul.
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