On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, David Phillips wrote: > The problem with doing that is then you are limited by the speed of the > load balancer. What happens when you max that out? Often, it is better > to use an SSL aware load balancer that forwards the SSL connections > intact to the backend servers and lets them decrypt them. Then you can > scale simply by adding another backend machine to the cluster. Very true - this does limit what options you can use while load balancing, but most cases that require those options are broken in any case. (IE, the sites that balance based on the session cookie that gets sent, things like that.) > This is how Zeus Load Balancer works. It's a rather cool product. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list