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Tim_Watts_29480's avatar
Tim_Watts_29480
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Oct 10, 2016

F5 - is it just a reverse proxy (as far as fronting 100 webservers)

Hi,   I have someone trying to sell me the virtues of F5 loadbalancers, so I can present 100+ virtual servers running webservers on a single public (aka publically routeable) IPv4 address instead ...
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janholtz's avatar
janholtz
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Oct 10, 2016

Also, just a personal observation: If you are fronting 100+ web services, I very much recommend:

 

1) Creating a dynamic type of origin server pool (e.g a phantom pool consisting of 100s of fallow members that can be dynamically populated)

 

2) A heterogeneous server arsenal (e.g a team of Ngninx Servers JUST for content that lives under /images, a team of Apache Servers for .js content, a team of Microsoft for asp[x], etc)

 

THESE are the type of things you can do with [only] F5, and play to it's strengths.

 

//Jan