Load Balancing and Varnish

[Allan Brand]

Can Varnish load balance with algorithms other than round-robin or
random?  That's all I've been able to find.

Thanks,
Allan

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Javier Casares <javier at casares.org> wrote:
> ¿Why don't you use Varnish as a LB?
>
> https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/LoadBalancing
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> Javier Casares
> http://javiercasares.com/
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> 2012/6/26 Allan Brand <allan.brand at gmail.com>:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm new to Varnish and I've seen a number of discussions where Varnish
>> is used in conjunction with a load balancer in the following manner:
>> [LB] -> [Varnish] -> [www 1-n]
>>
>> I'm guessing that Varnish is running locally on the www hosts?  If
>> not, Is there any reason why placing Varnish in front of the load
>> balancers instead would not be ideal?
>> [Varnish] -> [LB} -> [www 1-n]
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Allan
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