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Smegma · 04-03-2003, 06:47 PM

Speaking of asinine.. Do NOT do round robin. Round Robin is the poor-mans load balancer.

1: It's not as effective for balancing load as a load balancer.
2: Should one of the servers in the round-robin fail, you lose 10% of your traffic (assuming a 10 server cluster).

The Foundry ServerIron is a great platform. So is the Nortel Networks 184E (Formally Alteon). We use Foundry here.

Hardware Load Balancing works great with stateless applications and can accommodate statefull (database driven) serving as well.

Load balancers, like the ServerIron, can pull a server out of rotation if it's state is determined to be down (http pull, ICMP, etc).

They also distribute load intelligently - you can set up the switch to distribute load in many ways including least connections, max reverse proxy hits, etc.. none of which you will get with Round Robin.

04-03-2003, 06:47 PM
Smegma Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,751	Speaking of asinine.. Do NOT do round robin. Round Robin is the poor-mans load balancer. 1: It's not as effective for balancing load as a load balancer. 2: Should one of the servers in the round-robin fail, you lose 10% of your traffic (assuming a 10 server cluster). The Foundry ServerIron is a great platform. So is the Nortel Networks 184E (Formally Alteon). We use Foundry here. Hardware Load Balancing works great with stateless applications and can accommodate statefull (database driven) serving as well. Load balancers, like the ServerIron, can pull a server out of rotation if it's state is determined to be down (http pull, ICMP, etc). They also distribute load intelligently - you can set up the switch to distribute load in many ways including least connections, max reverse proxy hits, etc.. none of which you will get with Round Robin. __________________ <a href="http://www.jupiterhosting.com"><img src="http://www.jupiterhosting.com/banners/55x55.jupiter.gif" alt="" border="0" align=""></a>