load-balancing

I am writing a web app that will be hitting a SOLR server frequently. I plan to create multiple instances of this SOLR server so that one specific…

I am creating a site that I expect to receive DDoS attacks on occasion. I have created two EBS AMIs on Amazon EC2. One AMI for a MySQL Database and…

I have a load balancer setup with two server farms behind it, one has 3 Apache servers on Linux and the other has 2 IIS servers. I configured 2…

I'm considering implementing EC2's Elastic Load Balancing features, but I'm running a web application (on the LAMP stack) that has frequent changes…

I recently decided to use Apache HTTPD (on CentOS - RPM version httpd-2.2.3-45.el5.centos) with mod_proxy and mod_proxy_balancer to create a…

What are some of the best alternatives for load balancing thousands of active long polls to servers geographically spread? Ideally, load should be…

I am trying to use stunnel infront of Haproxy for SSL support. SSL certificates are located according to stunnel configuration. I am also able to…

I've been scaling out a service very rapidly, and have found a problem in the way I've been balancing the load. My servers do not need a perfectly…

I have a JEE ear application deployed on 2 clusters with 2 instances each on Glassfish v3.1. These are load balanced by an Apache server running on…

I have apache2 tomcat6 both running on port 80 with mod_jk setup on ubuntu production server hosting some jsp pages. We are planning to setup like…

I am trying to use nginx to load-balance a couple of downstream app servers, and to show a "fail whale" style page if all the downstream servers are…

I was trying to use the mod_proxy_balance module of apache to setup a loadbalancer for 2 webservers in the background. I thought I successfully did.…

what's the best way to achieve high availability for a dynamic website? If I create a second copy on another server and do not wish to use a load…

I just started using haproxy (tcp mode because of SSL) to load balance my traffic between two web servers. When I was using a single server, after…

I'm looking into ways to balance the load on our MySQL infrastructure, and can't seem to find an answer that works for me... :) So, I have one big…

If SSL is handled by a load balancer, do I still need to configure it in the WCF serviceCertificate node? My scenario is to use message level…

Hi, I am using apache server as a front end load balancer with tomcat6 servers. I am using lbmethod configuration for making all the requests from…

Hi everybody, First of all i have to say i'm very very newbie as sysadmin. I'm trying to do someone else's work, and i have almost 0 experience in…

Hi! Whenever I try to access /balancer-manager in the browser, I get a 404 from the connected Tomcat cluster. Any idea what is wrong here?…

Hi, I'm looking for advice on the best way (mainly in terms of hardware) to set up a high speed load balancing server cluster on a budget (say…