reverse proxy cache design

[sridhar basam]

Can you make them all be active/active?

 Sridhar

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:47 PM, roadfox <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:

> at the moment we are running an active/standby reverse proxy
> installation.
> one virtual IP by keepalived.
>
> it works great thanks to NGINX, but has the disantvantage of having an
> empty cache on the standby proxy, so in case of a failover the cache
> must first be filled up, which slows the proxy massively down.
>
> i'm now thinking about adding the standby proxy the list of origin
> servers, so i get something like this
>
> proxy01 -> origin01
>               -> origin02
>               -> proxy02 -> origin01
>                                   -> origin02
>
> this would make shure that proxy02's cache is filled to
>
> will this make sense? can i configure proxy02 so he would directly
> answer (direct server return)? or do i really need an loadbalancer in
> front of the two ngingx proxys?
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,147654,147654#msg-147654
>
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