[Phpwm] Load Balancing and redundancy

[David Goodwin]

Mike Tipping wrote:
> I've currently got a number of projects on the go that are going to exceed
> the capacity of a single server. These are fairly dynamic, session based
> sites hosted on LAMP servers.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience or advice on load balancing and adding
> redundancy to apache websites?
> 
> Currently I'm looked at:
> 
> * Balance - which seems too simple to be true 
>  
> * Virtual Linux Server - Heck of a lot more complicated but more powerful. 
>  
> Any thoughts on these as solutions or suggestions on alternatives?
> 

If you store the sessions in a database, and write custom session 
handler functions, you could just use DNS round-robin....

e.g.
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php

I've not heard of Balance before - I presume you mean :
http://www.inlab.de/balance.html ?


I'd opt for LVS


David

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