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Originally posted by jpoker
Despite the comments mentioned here, Round Robin is
actually just fine. Its not perfect, but I haven't
experienced any problems with it (other than when i introduced more than 23 servers in the rotation) nor have I have seen
the clumping that was mentioned above.
Load Balancers are indeed the ideal solution but if you
are using only one of them then you are introducing a single
point of failure which defeats one of the purposes of
having a load balanced system. If you can afford it, redundant
load balancers are the nice cadillac solution. But for galleries,
i would tend to stay with simple and cheap.
- jpoker.
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What does the end user see when a load balanced server goes down?
What does the end user see what a RR DNS server foes down?
Very different outcomes. With RR, you loose a significant portion of your traffic. Load Balance, the hardware takes the server out of rotation.
Trust me when I say I know what I am talking about. I have been doing this since Local Director was a startup (not owned by Cisco) shipping me demo boxes to test back at my days at Schwab.