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local & global load balancing on the cheap
Not many people know what LVS is. I ran World Health Organization’s public website (www.who.int) using a pair of Compaq DL360 servers running Linux Virtual Server, which is an open-source load-balancer. And guess what, during SARS, we saw over 14 million hits a day at the peak. While I don’t have the specific cps / concurrent conn numbers (we didn’t measure those), the boxes did just fine. (more…)
Filed under: httpd — Tags: application, availability, dns, load-balancing, performance, web — appgirl @ 8:37 pmComments (0)