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Have you looked into a hardware load-balancing solution?  The book "Redhat
Linux 6 Server" gave me some valuable info on future load-balancing options.
It touches on Round-Robin DNS (which I would stay away from) and also
mentions certain hardware solutions:

Cisco's Local Director                   http://www.cisco.com
Alteon's Ace Director                    http://www.alteon.com
Radware's Web Server Director    http://www.radware.com

These would fall in line behind your router and in front of your
switches/hubs directing traffic according to IP as needed.  The good thing
about a hardware solution is:

*Distributes load among multiple servers based on its network load,
availability of the underlying application, and even performance.
*Fault tolerant... If a server crashes of the desired application fails for
some reason, it will be taken out of the server farm and no traffic will be
directed towards the broken server.
*No delay in adding servers or taking down broken servers.
*The hardware is fully manageable as it can be told to load balance based on
network load, availability of the application itself, and performance.

Now I wish there was an OpenSource application for Linux that could also do
this.... maybe there is....

Hope this helps,

Erik Barker
Systems Manager

Michael L. Delaney <mdelaney@compaq.net> wrote in message
news:384C3704.1C2910E4@compaq.net...
> I have a need to break the Oracle database and Apache web servers to be
> able to scale the web servers to accommodate up to 150,000 concurrent
> hits.  If I take the traditional approach I would arm two database
> servers with max RAM and array web servers in front of it.  The actual
> DB access are very low throughput and is not the issue.  The big issue
> is the webservers and how well they scale.  Any experiences and
> recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
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