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Re: Load Balancing Question

From: Peter Lalor
Date: Saturday, October 16, 1999
Time: 6:55:00 pm

>From: "Paul Willis" <paul@netro42.com>
>
>BTW why do you want your secondary webserver only to come into play
>when the primary is down? You will have to keep it up to date so it
>has a current version of your site etc. so why not use it to take
>some load from your first webserver. Even if it's not a very powerful
>machine, load balancing should make sure its not overloaded.

You'd think so, but I recall reading a white paper long ago on StarNine's site that stated that performance would decreased unless all machines in a RAIC were identical. I couldn't find the paper just now, so perhaps things have changed since. <shrug>

Drifting off topic...


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