Dual load balancer (one failsafe)?

Andrei GUDIU andreig at openbsd-box.org
Mon Jun 16 11:33:57 MSD 2008


Salut, o rugaminte am
se poate sa trimiti si tu mailuirle catre lista NGINX ca toata lumea catre
nginx at sysoev.ru ?
Nu de alta dar mai are omu si niste filtre.

Merci.

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> Hi Alex,
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexander Staubo [mailto:alex-
>> udTnqj2FalhuMpJDpNschA at public.gmane.org]
>> Posted At: Sunday, June 15, 2008 2:12 PM
>> Posted To: gmane.comp.web.nginx.english
>> Conversation: Dual load balancer (one failsafe)?
>> Subject: Re: Dual load balancer (one failsafe)?
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Floren Munteanu <nginx-
>> PPfIqZxcmgI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > What to do, use HaProxy or the built-in nginx balancer?
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>> Stick with Nginx if you are already familiar with it and you are using
>> it for serving your PHP. There's no need to complicate things with yet
>> another new component. I think HAProxy is a much better load balancer,
>> but there are pros and cons to both approaches.
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>> You might want to check out layer 4 load-balancing as an option. The
>> LVS project, of which Heartbeat is a part, also offers the IPVS
>> system, which can load-balance network traffic to multiple nodes at
>> the layer 4, ie. by distributing network traffic at the packet level.
>>
>> This is simpler and more limited than the kind of fancy HTTP magic
>> that Nginx and HAProxy can do, but it's much faster since there no
>> proxying involved. Here's a howto (based on Heartbeat 2, which you
>> might want to avoid):
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>>   http://www.novell.com/communities/node/4846/load-balancing-howto-lvs-
>> ldirectord-heartbeat-2
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>> All of this stuff requires Linux, by the way.
>>
>> Alexander.
>>
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> I will follow your advice and stick with nginx. Thank you for taking the time to
> reply.
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> Regards,
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> Floren
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