Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On ons, 2008-06-18 at 01:44 +0000, ffredrixson_at_comcast.net wrote:
>
>
>> I'm most interested in the squid back-end setup. Should we look at something linux based clustering? Or should we be looking at some internal squid process?
>>
>
> You don't need to cluster Squif, just a bunch of more or less
> independent servers all behind a load balancer scheduling the load an
> monitoring the servers disabling faulty ones. (i.e. what any load
> balancer you can find does..).
Just consider balancing the load on source IP, or NATing the Squid
servers, as there are a number of websites that don't like a single HTTP
"session" originating from multiple IPs.
> You already mentioned LVS and for LVS the
> ldirectord load balancer manager does a good job. But you may want to
> load balancer to be clustered in active/standby mode.
>
> WCCP also does all of this quite fine, and is a good choice if the
> proxies are doing transparent interception of port 80.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
Chris
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