Strategies for splitting load across varnish instances? And avoiding single-point-of-failure?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <d002c4031001160741q63dd5a50i6342116daba159a6 at mail.gmail.com>, Micha
el Fischer writes:

>On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>wrote:
>
>>        director h1 hash {
>>                { .backend webserver; .weight 1; }
>>                { .backend varnish2; .weight 1; }
>>                { .backend varnish3; .weight 1; }
>
>
>What happens when varnish2 or varnish3 dies?

If a particular backend in the director is unhealthy, the requests
for it will be redistributed by rehashing over the healthy subset
of directors.  Once it becomes healthy, normality will be restored.

So everything should work out fine, for some value around 99.9% of fine.

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