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Re: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
From: Bennett Todd <bet () rahul net>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:49:04 -0400
So I think we're in complete agreement, even though we have opposite things to say about the box. For bandwidths up to say 50-60 Mbps they work beautifully. If you want to go faster, you probably have to sacrifice some of the smarts they bring to the job. But while I certainly understand that circumstances will vary, from my own experience I wouldn't try and scale a single load-balancer up past say 50Mbps sustained capacity; I'd scale up from there by deploying diverse server farms, plugged into substantially different parts of the internet. How many places are there where you can really usefully push more than 50Mbps into one point of the internet without it just swelling up into a big blister and popping? I realize that there are probably plenty of private backbones that would have no trouble distributing that sort o' bandwidth, but I've had bad luck with peering points; whenever I see bad performance from one of my server farms it seems like the real problem has ended up being where the provider's backbone hooks up to other providers'. Then again, that may just mean that I've been stuck using poorer providers. -Bennett
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