any suggestion for web server load balancing appliances

[ask-LxHg3dlN6iy+XT7JhA+gdA at public.gmane.org (Ask Bjørn Hansen)]

On Aug 20, 2009, at 21:54, Dave Peters <gameslover987-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> We have 5 linux web servers and hosting 900 site and looking for  
> load balancing appliances.

We use pfsense on a pair of regular 1U servers for our firewalls and  
very basic tcp load balancing to nginx and perlbal (depending on the  
application).

Cheap, and for us it works great.  We use nginx for SSL stuff and  
perlbal for regular http.

We send all cacheable requests through a CDN and have less than 5  
million requests a day in each datacenter, but the boxes involved  
(real and Xen) all have basically 0% load.

I like the "all user servicable parts" approach better than "get  
something used and cheap on eBay"...

Coyote Point is a relatively low cost option if you want commercial  
support.

  - ask