Hi guys, in my typical "ignore the rules when I have an audience of smart techie people", I thought I'd poll the group about software load balancing. I know next to nothing about it, but I'm deploying my site (built on Postgres 9.0 now!) within the next few days and at least want a simple solution.
I'll be running a load balancer on a cheap, 256MB virtual server instance running whatever flavor of Linux. I want something super simple to setup, but perhaps something with more advanced features if I want to expand. I don't really need sticky sessions, or SSL support. The site is new and won't have a huge load, I just want to be "prepared" in case I get flooded unexpectedly. Am I best off just using Apache with mod_proxy_balancer, or should I check into solutions such as HAProxy or IPVS? Anything else good out there that people can recommend? Another "nice to have" would be a solution where the load balancer could serve up static resources such as jpg, png, js/css files, and only forward dynamic page requests to a random web server. However, I might move those files to a CDN anyway, so not a huge deal. Thanks!! Sorry for being off-topic, I'll make up for it somehow. Mike -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
