Nginx health checks

[Aleksandar Lazic]

On Mit 11.06.2008 10:15, Barry Abrahamson wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2008, at 3:52 AM, Aleksandar Lazic wrote:
>>
>> Do you know about X-Accel-Redirect
>>
>> http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxXSendfile
>
> Yep, but this doesn't work for us because the content is not local
> (usually it is on S3, but sometimes it is elsewhere).  What would be
> neat was if Nginx supported Perlbal-style internal redirects.  From
> http://www.danga.com/perlbal/
>
> 	? Big one for us; a backend can instruct Perlbal to fetch the
> user's data from a completely separate server and port and URL, 100%
> transparent to the user
> 	? Can actually give Perlbal a list of URLs to try. Perlbal will
> find one that's alive. Again, the end user sees no redirects
> happening.

Hm sounds interesting, but how is the delay in the time that perlbal
search for the right content?!

Cheers

Aleks