[AusNOG] Tiny Load Balancers in Australia.

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

A quick google search throws up a lot of options:

This one looks pretty good: http://haproxy.1wt.eu/

MMC

On 05/08/2008, at 2:33 PM, Sean K. Finn wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I’m pulling my hair out trying to find two *tiny* load balancers for  
> a remote server installation to balance IP traffic / http requests  
> to two web servers.
>
> Does anyone know a local Australian source of entry-level load  
> balancers?
>
> At most I’d need to balance between 10mbps to 100mbps between two  
> servers.
>
> IPv4 is fine.
>
> What I’m really after is a unit that has vrrp or something like it  
> so the units have their own failover capability if one dies, plus  
> the necessary traffic direction between two servers. (nothing fancy  
> required session wise on the load balancers, just pure traffic  
> redirection).
>
> This is an excercise in application redundancy and not necessarily  
> performance.
>
> (Vendors please note: Feel free to post off list, vendor offers  
> welcome, but if you want to take me on the three week hump me and  
> dump me vendor dating trail, please don’t.
> I need this gear ASAP and don’t want to fork out 20 to 40 grand for  
> two ‘entry level’ 750mbps units as they are overkill, neither do I  
> want you to take me to lunch and build a relationship before you  
> give me pricing.
> I need something tiny but dependable, and I need to get the ball  
> rolling ASAP)
>
> If anyone has any recommendations for gear-to-purchase or  
> alternatively a software solution on server-based hardware, I’m all  
> ears.
>
> Best Regards,
> Sean.
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