Currently we have a single web server (nginx) with multiple php
application
servers (php-fpm) and the load is being handled well. The raid
controller
failed last week on the web server and we were down for a few hours.
Adding
a hardware or software based load balancer in front of the web server
and
using additional web servers, although still represents a single point
of
failure, will further increase the availability of our system should one
of
the web servers fail. We will be fully redundant in the future.
Hi All,
Currently we have a single web server (nginx) with multiple php application
servers (php-fpm) and the load is being handled well. The raid controller failed
last week on the web server and we were down for a few hours. Adding a hardware or
software based load balancer in front of the web server and using additional web
servers, although still represents a single point of failure, will further
increase the availability of our system should one of the web servers fail. We
will be fully redundant in the future.
Our provider is
recommending:High performance load balancer -- CAI Networks′ WebMux a
hardware solution, which I’m fine with, but I wanted to put it to this group, is
it better to use a hardware solution such as this or to add another server with
Nginx as a reverse proxy to a group of web servers?
From a hardware point of view, we don’t have any choice in terms of a load
balancer (other than putting up another server with software on it).
Looking for real life experiences / recommendations and suggestions.
hi,
you can check on LVS with direct routing if all af your servers are on
the same subnet. (without direct routing otherwise). It works like a
charms, it has failover and it can handle a LOT of traffic. Delivering
1gbps should be easy. If you have to handle a huge amount of traffic,
you can loadbalance on several LVS instances with DNS round robin.
