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Dbow_21284
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Jul 10, 2009

Design - LB Servers running 30 Sites - ALL HTTP

I am looking for advice on the best way to load balance many sites on multiple web servers. Its all HTTP too and all sites are running on the same default ip and port 80. We are justing using the hos...
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Dbow_21284
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Jul 10, 2009
Ok so I guess it would be fine to just create a dummy Pool that uses the IPs of servers and just monitor health via ICMP! Cuz if I cant ping it, then everything else is down anyway and I can just redirect to maintenance via fallbackhost in HTTP profile.

 

 

So again, looking for feedback if anyone else thinks there is better way of doing it and maybe there is something that I am not considering.

 

 

Thanks again in advance.

 

 

Dbow