load balancing question

[Ronnie T Livingston]

thanks for the information, Warren.

-Ronnie

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Warren Togami wrote:

>
> If you run a database on one server like MySQL or PostgreSQL, you can easily
> have multiple Apache web servers in front of that accepting the web requests
> with either a load balancing router or round-robin DNS.  Your scripts must
> be written in a such a way that it wont break with concurrent accesses like
> this, but it is workable.
>
> I believe Slashdot currently uses a FreeBSD box to do their load balancing
> delegation to multiple web servers, with a massive MySQL  InnoDB backend.
>
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