Re: load balance

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:56:04PM -0400, Theo E. Schlossnagle wrote:
> Eduardo wrote:
> >Hi,
> > 
> >Does mod_bakchand knows when a web server is not responding ?
> > 
> >I want to build a web server (2 machines) with load balance, but what if 
> >one of
> >then go down (not the machine, the httpd service) ? The live machine 
> >will know
> >(will recalculate the cost to each one in "real time") that the other 
> >one has died ?
> 
> Yes.  mod_backhand knows when any of the machines are unavailable.

I am considering mod_backhand on a three server system, two of them are
LAMP backends, and the third, is the frontend site. I noticed in the
docs for mod_backhand that it seemed really geared for massive clusters
of machines. Would I see a real benefit with only 2 (or maybe 3 if I can
rearange some stuff) machines in the cluster?

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