Re: [GENERAL] [Off Topic] Software load balancing question

2010-10-05 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > 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 > Some really heavy hit s

Re: [GENERAL] [Off Topic] Software load balancing question

2010-10-04 Thread Mike Christensen
Thanks, Pound sounds pretty awesome - looks like it'll do exactly what I need.. Thanks! On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> Hi guys, in my typical "ignore the rules when I have an audience of >> smart techie people",

Re: [GENERAL] [Off Topic] Software load balancing question

2010-10-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/04/10 5:51 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: Build a light apache server and use mod proxy to reverse proxy the dir where your dynamic pages come from on a heavy server. or even lighttp or nginx or similar on the front end server. These servers are very suitable for serving lots of static cont

Re: [GENERAL] [Off Topic] Software load balancing question

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > 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 n

[GENERAL] [Off Topic] Software load balancing question

2010-10-04 Thread Mike Christensen
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