[AusNOG] Load Balancer Experience / recommendations ?

[Peter Tonoli]

We use nginx as well, however we're investigating putting varnish behind nginx to make certain services a little snappier.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Coleman" <Patrick.Coleman at dec.wa.gov.au>
> To: "Sean K. Finn" <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>
> Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Sent: Thursday, 26 July, 2012 1:22:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Load Balancer Experience / recommendations ?
> We use nginx on Linux as a reverse proxy (and occasionally load
> balancer) and it's fantastic. Supposed to be better architecturally
> than varnish, and designed to handle 10,000 concurrent connections on
> very modest hardware. I've used varnish as well a while back, and
> nginx seems nicer to configure.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 

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Peter Tonoli < peter at medstv.unimelb.edu.au > +61-3-9288-2399 
IT Manager 
The University of Melbourne - Eastern Hill Academic Centre, St. Vincent's Institute and O'Brien Institute