On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mike Christensen <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi guys, in my typical "ignore the rules when I have an audience of > smart techie people", I thought I'd poll the group about software load > balancing. I know next to nothing about it, but I'm deploying my site > (built on Postgres 9.0 now!) within the next few days and at least > want a simple solution. > > I'll be running a load balancer on a cheap, 256MB virtual server > instance running whatever flavor of Linux. I want something super > simple to setup, but perhaps something with more advanced features if > I want to expand. I don't really need sticky sessions, or SSL > support. The site is new and won't have a huge load, I just want to > be "prepared" in case I get flooded unexpectedly. > > Am I best off just using Apache with mod_proxy_balancer, or should I > check into solutions such as HAProxy or IPVS? Anything else good out > there that people can recommend? A friend of mine recommends Pound. > Another "nice to have" would be a solution where the load balancer > could serve up static resources such as jpg, png, js/css files, and > only forward dynamic page requests to a random web server. However, I > might move those files to a CDN anyway, so not a huge deal. Thanks!! > Sorry for being off-topic, I'll make up for it somehow. Build a light apache server and use mod proxy to reverse proxy the dir where your dynamic pages come from on a heavy server. -- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
