Load balancing?

[Fredrik Kristiansen]

Hi,

We have just built us a function in PHP to load balance the images between 4
varnish servers. This function will always assign the same image to a server
every time. It doesn't select a random server. So the cache is distributed
across our 4 servers.

// Get varnish server path
function get_varnish_path($path) {
    return 'http://'.$GLOBALS['servers'][crc32($path) %
count($GLOBALS['servers'])].$path;
}

// Varnish servers
$servers[] = 'varnish1.site.com';
$servers[] = 'varnish2.site.com';
$servers[] = 'varnish3.site.com';
$servers[] = 'varnish4.site.com';

// Example
print get_varnish_path('/image1.jpg').' ';
print get_varnish_path('/image12.jpg').' ';
print get_varnish_path('/image54.jpg').' ';
print get_varnish_path('/image488.jpg').' ';
print get_varnish_path('/image1.jpg').' ';

// Result
http://varnish4.site.com/image1.jpg
http://varnish1.site.com/image12.jpg
http://varnish3.site.com/image54.jpg
http://varnish1.site.com/image488.jpg
http://varnish4.site.com/image1.jpg

Fredrik Kristiansen
Nettby.no

On 17/01/2008, Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I remember there were discussions about possible HTTP load balancing
> features in Varnish, but I don't know what was the result. Does Varnish
> support load balancing (even simple round-robin would be enough, IP
> address hashing would be better)?
>
> If not, does anyone has a recommendation about a nice and stable load
> balancer (ideally, it would also have an integrated HTTP accelerator to
> reduce the number of components to maintain in the system)?
>
>
>
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