[H-GEN] Constructing load-balancing high traffic web servers on cheap har dware?

Ben Carlyle carlyle at tabq.com.au
Mon Feb 22 21:07:59 EST 1999


First up: I'm not asking in any official capacity...
          just putting out feelers.

What is the best way to setup a group of redundant web
servers for low-cost and high-reliability?

The site is the TAB Queensland web page, hence is quite
busy, has to deal with a lot of dynamic data (current
race odds etc), and must be reliable.

I've seen a fair bit of documentation on the squid http
accelerator option, and some round-robin apache web
serving.  Has anyone in humbug has used these kinds of
setups for reasonable sized sites?  How do they perform
in practice?

My current idea is to use the squid accellerator with
virtual hosts enabled based on a round robin script
and very short term (a few seconds) caching.  More
static parts of the site can be housed on other servers.

Does this sound like reasonable proposal to give to my
superiors?



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