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		staunch on March 4, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't use Pound for load balancing Doesn't hashing on a cookie from each server give you fairness? http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUpstreamRequestHashModu...

michelson01 on March 4, 2008 [–]

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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