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Re:Don't use Pound for load balancing by staunch on Monday March 03, 2008 @09:28PM (#128522)
Doesn't hashing on a cookie from each server give you fairness?

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUpstreamRequestHashModu...

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Re:Don't use Pound for load balancing by michelson01 on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @01:24AM (#128655)
i prefer a proxy balancer that is smart enough to know when the back-end servers (mongrels in this case) are busy or not, and smart enough that it doesn't send requests to back-end servers that are down (i'm looking at you, apache mod_proxy_balancer)
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