[AusNOG] Web Application Load Balancer recommendations

[Darren Moss]

You've blown our secret :)

Nah, it's just a web application that is struggling to keep up. Upgrade
is long overdue.

We went for Squid, which is already up and running in test.

Cheers.



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-----Original Message-----
From: andrew khoo [mailto:andrew at aussie.net] 
Sent: 2010-05-23 1:17 pm
To: Adrian Chadd
Cc: Darren Moss; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Web Application Load Balancer recommendations

On Sat, 22 May 2010, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Just be wary of piping every single request through some php lookup 
> script which talks to mysql. That's asking for scaling issues without 
> a -lot- of thought.

one of the early commercial CDNs did exactly that when they needed to
compete with their competitor that had superior geo-logic :)




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