RE: Soekris, or other small embedded hardware?

["Peter Mueller" <pmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I haven't ever had an actual CF card blow on me. LEAF is made 
> to live on
> readonly media.. so its not like it will be written to a lot.

I rather like LEAF.  Except when you have to start compiling your own pieces
of it.  Then you are better off doing your own setup.

> Thats not encouraging. I need something fairly cheap.. 
> otherwise I might
> as well go down the commercial load balancer route. What do others use
> for setups like this? Cheapest 1U's I can find are about $750 USD.

What about not using these Soekris's and just using those two beefy servers?
E.g., 

http://www.ultramonkey.org/2.0.1/topologies/ha-overview.html
or http://www.ultramonkey.org/2.0.1/topologies/sl-ha-lb-overview.html

Regards,

P