Miscellaneous questions

Michael S. Fischer michael at dynamine.net
Tue Apr 1 17:38:55 CEST 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Sascha Ottolski <ottolski at web.de> wrote:

> probably not exactly the same, but may be someone finds it useful: If
> just started to dive a bit into HAProxy (http://haproxy.1wt.eu/): the
> development version has the ability to calculate the loadbalancing
> based on the hash of the URI to decide which backend should receive a
> request. I guess this could be a nice companion to put in front of
> several reverse proxies to increase the hit rate of each one.


One major shortcoming of HAProxy is that it does not support HTTP Keep-Alive
connections.  This can be an issue if your origin servers are far away from
your proxies.

--Michael
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