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Re: Server load balancing techniques of commercial web sites..

To: cheaney Chen <cheaney.chen@xxxxxxxxx>, <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Server load balancing techniques of commercial web sites..
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:10:02 +0900
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 10:01:01AM +0800, cheaney Chen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   There are a lot of different kinds of SLB techniques, ex. DNS-based,
> Dispatcher-based(like LVS), and server-based , etc.
>   And my question is, for a commercial web site (like yahoo or ...)
> how to do SLB.
>   What methods are used to handle huge numbers of client's requests?
> Combination of SLB techniques above , or ... ?!

My understanding is that generally LVS-like systems are used,
possibly in conjunction with multiple sites which typically
have connections "allocated" by either some sort of inteligent DNS
system or some BGP tricks (or a combination of the two).

-- 
Horms

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