Search Again: Re: How does loadbalancing work? From: Aaron Lynch Date: Friday, May 25, 2001 Time: 12:15:04 am And of course now you are back to a single point of failure. If the proxy goes down, your redundant servers are useless. On 5/24/01 11:51 PM, The Defendant "Men & Mice Support" <cbuxton@menandmice.com> Confessed: > For outside browsers, they're hitting the Squid server, which then > hits the correct (up & running) web server. So outside users aren't > then affected by this problem of browser memory. It will then only > affect your internal hosts. > > There's a flip side, though - you can't guarantee that an end-user > will continue to hit the same server throughout their visit. So if > you have any sort of interactive stuff that needs to track a given > visitor (WebObjects, Interaction, HTML/OS, etc.), it's going to > occasionally break as a visitor is diverted to the development > server, and then back again a few minutes later. > > In fact, since it's the Squid server that's getting switched, *all* > traffic from the outside will hit the main server, except for > occasional stretches (length determined by your TTL, frequency by > your load balance settings) where they'll *all* hit the dev server.

Messages In This Thread: How does loadbalancing work? by james on Mar 8, 2001 at 8:53:10 am Re: How does loadbalancing work? by james on Mar 8, 2001 at 9:12:40 am Re: How does loadbalancing work? by Men & Mice Support on Mar 8, 2001 at 3:12:37 pm How does loadbalancing work? by Jono on May 24, 2001 at 10:30:25 pm Re: How does loadbalancing work? by Men & Mice Support on May 24, 2001 at 11:52:53 pm Re: How does loadbalancing work? by Aaron Lynch on May 25, 2001 at 12:15:04 am