[Gllug] squid, load balancing

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 16 Jan, SteveC wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm looking for advice on scaling a website (openstreetmap.org) above
> one box as we're hitting quite high load. The current topology is a db
> machine, the web server www, a tile server for imagery and a machine
> with backup harddrive space. Everything runs debian and apache2.
> 
> We're using squid to do some caching but it really isn't fun to
> configure from my limited experience. Are there other things to consider
> apart from squid? What are the options for load balancing?
> 
> have fun,
> 
> SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/

   I have not checked again, but I think that BIND9 can do round-robin DNS
allocations, so that you can add webservers as needed.

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Chris Bell

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