On 2 Jun 2009, at 19:24, FRLinux wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> 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).
>> To clarify, you are talking about reverse proxies, right?
I am talking about a box which will be the public IP of a web
service / site / application. Behind it there will be n web /
application servers. The proxy server will accept requests from the
world, and distribute them to the servers. So, it's a load balancing
proxy I'm looking for. Whether that's forward or reverse I'm sure I
don't know :-)
Niall
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