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Hi Clint,
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:16:03PM -0800, Clint Byrum wrote:
> This got me wondering... Why does persitance matter to cookies? If you're
> keeping sessions, wouldn't you just store the info in a shared database and
> be done with it? The same shared database that your dynamic content comes
> from, could be used to store the session information.
Correct. It doesn't matter to HTTP cookies if there is shared storage.
> Lets not get into the HA aspects, but just load balancing. If one could turn
> off persistance, one would not have the problem of the thousands of AOL(or
> large corporate organization) users sharing a proxy hammering one server. I
> know Slashdot uses 3 Debian web servers, pointing at one RedHat MySQL
> server(strangely, they don't use LVS or BigIP, but someone else's hardware
> solution). Doesn't this sound like the best idea?
This is fine except the reason for LVS connection affinity is, for example, in
the particular situation of SSL.
Of course it's all described: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/persistence.html
Later!
Ben.
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