On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 ricardo@americasnet.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I searched around the archive and found one message dealing with reverse
> proxy as a load balancer but did not find a reply...
>
> Can squid be used efficiently as a front-end load balancer for multiple web
> servers? If so can anyone help me out in how to configure such a thing?
yep. take a look at www.webpersonals.com.
> I'd like to have a squid front-end where itself would be used as a cache for
> static pages and images, and for dynamic/cgi requests it would load balance
> between a set of back-end servers...
>
> How can I achieve that with squid?
you set up squid as an accelerator and then you use the redirection
capability. We wrote a simple perl script to distribute the load but you
can get as complex as you like.
Alvin Starr || voice: (416)585-9971
Interlink Connectivity || fax: (416)585-9974
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Received on Fri Jul 09 1999 - 11:47:46 MDT
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