Load Balancers for Linux?

Posted by Cliff on Friday December 13, 2002 @06:47AM from the it'-all-a-weight-distribution-act dept.

scales asks: "We currently use the Dispatcher component of IBM's WebSphere Edge Server as a load balancer on some Red Hat boxes where I work, and the boss has asked me to look into OSS alternatives. I've already been pointed at Linux Virtual Server and Ultra Monkey, and I was wondering if any readers have had any experience with these packages, or had any opinions they could offer about other products." Ask Slashdot last visited a similar topic way back in 1999, so I think it might be time for an update.

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Re:Ever had your load balancer fail? by gengee · 2002-12-13 08:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

That's terrible advice. Do you really want to to be on the phone with a Level I tech while your entire website is down? If a service is truly critical to you, and you're basing your decision on the speed of support, you've done something wrong in the design of your network.

A much better solution would be to make everything redundant and failover automatically.

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