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Originally posted by jules180
we actually have a good amount of datacenter space so thats not an issue at least not yet. regarding round robin vs load balancers we have had good exp. so far using foundry server irons w dsr and various health checks to deal with failing boxes or outages the only other consideration in the decision is that we are running ssl as well on these boxes.
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Are you looking for the servers to communicate back to one database server or will the content/websites be updated on each server?
I would go with what the other dude said and take the 10 machines over the single machine, or even the dual machines.
Think of it like this:
If you have 10 machines and one dies you only lose 10% of your overall processing power.
If you have 5 machines and one dies you lose 20% of your operating power
If you have one single machine you go down completely.
Also, 10 machines being served with round robin would quite possibly function quicker than a balancer, plus bowsers are smart enough to detect if the hostname has multiple IPS and try a different one should the one its attempting to use is down.