Re: Howto loadbalance a jabber server (ejabberd)? (Direct connections & via BOSH)

"John W. M. Stevens" <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:33:05 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.network.jabber.admin
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On 1/17/2012 12:05 AM, Michael Weibel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to this list. I'm currently doing research on how to properly 
> configure load balancing with ejabberd.
>
> My setup will be as follows:
>
> - Multiple Clusters of Ejabberd nodes connected to each other with s2s 
> federation
> - Web-Clients connect either via a Webclient over HTTP-Bind(BOSH) or 
> via Websocket
> - Mobile-Clients connect over the "normal" way
>
> This requires to have a load-balancer before each Ejabberd cluster, 
> one for XMPP and one for HTTP.

Have you considered actual load balancing hardware?

F5 Networks BIG-IP, for example?

http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/

Luck,
John S.
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