> 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 :-)
Nginx appears to be the default these days for any high performance
sites that use PHP in the back. If its a Java app, well then I always
use Apache with Mod_Proxy_AJP. If its at all possible, I recommend you
keep the frontend servers as dumb as possible (by dumb, I mean as
little config as possible that you need to do). that way it will be as
easy as hell to configure and add more nodes as you need to. Keep
configs in SVN or SVN too, well handy.
My 2c
AJ
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