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Originally posted by Smegma
I don't think the issue is the load balancer.
I find it funny that people think that RR is better.
Think folks. Why do you think every major website pushing more than 100mbs uses a load balancer?
Do you think that so many companies - Foundry, Extreme, Cisco, F5, Alteon, etc, etc.. made these things because people like the color? the blinking lights?
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By people I'm sure you are also referring to me. Just because those companies make the load balancing switches, doesn't mean everyone with a webserver needs it. If you run your round robin right, it's a GOOD cheap solution to a much spendier boxed solution. Sure, in some cases you can never get any better than a boxed load balancer, but you gotta think if you really need it.
This guy is serving some HTML and images, only about 50mbps sustained traffic. He could easily run that on 3 servers and if one goes down just move the traffic over until the third is fixed.
Do you figure in the costs of having someone maintain your switch, doing software upgrades, etc.
Another thing to think of, if you do have a load balancer you really should have two. What if the one you have dies? You're screwed.