Load-balancing an SSL-based server farm?

[Tom Buskey]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anyone here set up LVS (or something equivalent) to load balance
> > across a set of apache servers serving up SSL-protected sites?
>
> Yes, but it was 4+ years ago. :)
>

A long time (2000?) ago I went through some demos of a web load appliance.
It was a competitor to Cisco that later got bought.

One alternative at the time was round robin DNS, but that won't work for
SSL.

Google has this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_%28networking%29
http://haproxy.1wt.eu/

An O'Reilly article:http://onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/09/26/load.html
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