[lvs-users] deciding among load balancers

["thushara wijeratna" <thushara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to decide between LVS and nginx for a load balancing
solution for a site with predicted high traffic - (say 10K HTTP
requests per second). I'm familiar with nginx as a reverse proxy /
image server. I have no familiarity with LVS. Do you think LVS has key
advantages
missing in nginx? If so, I would play with it to see how it fits our needs.

[Is it correct that LVS provides failover semantics as well? Because
as far as I can tell, nginx doesn't, to get around this, we use DNS
based mechanism so we have more than one nginx server registered, but
of course this is less than ideal]

thanks much,
thushara