load balancer

[Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <de...@hanik.com>]

I got straight forward questions,

1. is load balancing already built in, cause I have a hard time finding any information about it in the documentation.

2. If one was to build a LB plugin, would one start with a remap plugin, or a regular plugin.


thanks
Filip

Re: load balancer

[Eric Balsa <er...@apache.org>]

1. No

2. Yes :) Either would work. It depends on how sophisticated you want
your load balancing to be.

I would look at a remap plugin if you want to hash to origins based
only on aspects of the request (cookie/query string/url etc) and a
normal plugin if you want to do more tricky stuff (like pools of
origins with health checking, persistence, etc)

--Eric

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
<de...@hanik.com> wrote:
> I got straight forward questions,
>
> 1. is load balancing already built in, cause I have a hard time finding any
> information about it in the documentation.
>
> 2. If one was to build a LB plugin, would one start with a remap plugin, or
> a regular plugin.
>
>
> thanks
> Filip
>