Load Balancing and Varnish

[Javier Casares]

¿Why don't you use Varnish as a LB?

https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/LoadBalancing



Javier Casares
http://javiercasares.com/


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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