Search Again: Re: Load Balancing Question From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 Time: 1:11:00 pm At 11:55 AM -0700 10/16/99, Peter Lalor wrote: >>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> That's for round-robin load balancing. Our intelligent load balancing, used in conjunction with a functioning version of StarNine's plug-in, does away with that limitation. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

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