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    • CommentAuthorjohnfoster
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010 edited
     
    I'm researching a future topic on routers. I'm curious if anyone is using a load balancing router. sometimes these are configured for failover, round robin or they have routes based on the packet type. I've looked at things like astaro.com and pfsense. both of which are PC based. which isn't terrible it's just a bigger box. and there are a few hardware offerings from vendors like Cisco (Linsys), HP and Netgear. it seems to me that binding a few lines together will be the default way to get a bigger pipe from here on.

    what do you have in use and what are your thoughts about it?
    • CommentAuthorjtdennis
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010
     
    At home I use m0n0wall, which is BSD based and probably aimed at being more of a firewall than a router. It can be PC based, or you can buy embedded hardware and put it on that.
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      CommentAuthorlvthunder
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010
     
    I don't use a load balancing router, but maybe that pack that Leo and Alex have so they can broadcast live does. It binds 6 Cell Phone cards together.
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      CommentAuthorlvthunder
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010
     
    Also with astaro I think you can get it in a router sized box as well as the PC.
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    I've moved my companies servers to Amazon's EC2 and we use their Elastic Load Balancer for basic load balancing of our front-end servers. The front-end servers run Varnish for a caching proxy which has its own load balancing of our back-end servers.

    The only issue with the Elastic Load Balancer is that is requires the use of CNAME DNS records which is problematic for some of our uses, so we are still using DNS round-robin load balancing for some things.
    • CommentAuthorjohnfoster
    • CommentTimeApr 23rd 2010
     
    one thing amazing about EC2 is you don't have to think about CPU intensity the same way you do with real hardware. depending on the task of course. how many "servers" did you move or consolidate down?
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    johnfoster:one thing amazing about EC2 is you don't have to think about CPU intensity the same way you do with real hardware. depending on the task of course. how many "servers" did you move or consolidate down?


    We moved so we could grow without the hassle of dealing with ordering servers or leasing them from our hosts at astronomical rates. Right now we have 11 or 12 servers running on EC2.
    • CommentAuthorjohnfoster
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2010
     
    I have one server left on a multi-month contract. once that's up that server goes to either a VPS or some "cloud" service. I have a some work to do before that can happen though. sigh. maybe I'll talk about that on a show.
 
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