Questions about fair_upstream module

[Sergey A. Osokin]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:18:09AM +0100, Davide D'Amico wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm actually serving pages using nginx-1.0.13 on fbsd-8.2 amd64 with 3  
> backends (fbsd-8.2 amd64 with apache-2.2.22) and I'm using the default rr  
> upstream algorithm.
> 
> I am trying to switch to an algorithm different from rr, and I am thinking  
> to the fair upstream module.
> 
> Well, the homepage of the project seems quite old (and so it's ticketing  
> system: http://nginx.localdomain.pl/report/6) and that's not a good  
> starting point :)
> 
> Anyway, "googling" around searching for tips and use cases, I found:
> http://affectioncode.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/comparing-nginx-and-haproxy-for-web-applications/
> 
> that seems a very old post.
> 
> Does anyone use fair-upstream module in production? Any hints or tips  
> before trying it?
> 
> Differences between fair-module and haproxy?

Just the note: nginx with nginx_upstream_fair module version 20090923
(i.e. dated material) available from FreeBSD ports tree.

haproxy is the different product, the proxy server.

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Sergey A. Osokin
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