Re: modproxy load balancer

I guess my only 'wish' would be a ability of sticky sessions, so that a 
user could return to the same app-server his initial request was served.
and would be cherry on the top would be if this method would work 
across multiple web-servers as well, so regardless of which web-server 
the guy went to he would always return to the same app-server in the 
pool.

we do something like this now using Alteons. I think they around $2-5k 
on ebay.. might be another option as well.


On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 10:11 AM, Chuck Murcko wrote:

>
> On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 08:03 America/Phoenix, George Schlossnagle 
> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 10:48  AM, Eli Marmor wrote:
>>
>>> Bill Stoddard wrote:
>>>
>>>> Who would be interested in seeing some load balancing function 
>>>> being put
>>>> into mod_proxy?
>>>
>>> Several millions users?
>>> Many thousands of webmasters?
>>
>> Isn't there ongoing discussion about incorporating mod_backhand into 
>> mod_proxy for this?
>>
>
> I presumed there was some discussion between Theo and Graham at 
> ApacheCon about this. The copyrights prevent us from just dropping 
> mod_backhand into httpd. However, I have a patch that adds persistent 
> connections to mod_proxy that I am packaging and plan to submit over 
> the weekend, after I finish some current day job work.
>
> Chuck
>
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