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).
>Why not simple IPVS ? It works at layer 2-3 to load balance the traffic
to the various real servers. Can be setup in DR mode to avoid the
bottleneck of the proxy itself (web queries are much smaller that web
answers).
keepalived is a good package for the userland management of IPVS.
--
Thomas
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