[AusNOG] Load Balancer Experience / recommendations ?

[Simon Lyall]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Sean K. Finn wrote:
> I'm after some advice for the best, practical, and current generation 
> server load balancers that people are using at present.

The answers are a little different depending on what protocols, features 
(especially http caching), load and budget you have.

Like others have said if money is no object the go for F5s . They can 
handle any protocol you want and any insane rule you'd like. Not tried 
their http caching functions

For http caching I'd recomend varnish. 5,000 req/second on modest 
hardware in real-world situations without trying. A lot more than that 
possible. Insanely flexable rules. It also does basic load balancing.

Haproxy is also a pretty good load balancer. Rack solid and widely 
deployed. Not as configurable as F5s especially for protocols other than 
http.


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