Loadbalancing

http://haproxy.1wt.eu/10g.html

http://haproxy.1wt.eu/10g.html HA Proxy [synthetic] benchmarks on 10Gbit traffic. Linux network stack is the bottle neck here, not HAProxy, i.e. you can 10G line rate on big frames and few connections.

http://www.lowendtalk.com/questions/6032/round-robin-dns-as-failover [a blog post with ] good explanation about how failover happens in round-robin DNS setups. i.e. it is safe for browsers and most modern http-client libraries, but probably is not safe for other protocols

http://www.o3magazine.com/4/a/0/2.html Article about SSL termination with NGINX. In sort: 2 x 4 core AMD 2.5GHz == 25000 SSL TPS

http://vegan.net/lb/archive/11-2009/0022.html discussion on LB-L (load balancing mailing list) about load-balancer performance benchmarks, vendor’s BS and so on.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972338.aspx notes about how IIS creates and uses sessions for “classic ASP” (ASP.DLL)

http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,2073 some notes about keep-alive proxy setup for apache

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Setup_IP_failover_with_UCARP examples for config scripts for ucarp daemon. ucap is a alternative for VRRP, alows 2 devices to have shared IP address. used for setup redundant routers, load balancers

http://boombick.org/blog/posts/48 [RUSSIAN] How to configure Perlball + Heartbeat as HA load balancer with session support for app servers

http://blog.emmettshear.com/post/2008/03/03/Dont-use-Pound-for-load-balancing another evidence that if u need a loadbalancer – ngnix is the answer these days [and maybe perlball]