Getting back into the swing of things today. I've been investigating economical load-balancing/failover solutions, and learned a few things:
- Refurbished BigIP boxes can be had at crazy cheap prices. Pretty cool...
- RedHat offers their own cluster/load-balancing solution (based on their Piranha project) that looks interesting, but adding the cost of clustering software plus RHEL and it isn't cheap...
- Ultra Monkey! Cool name, looks like it was originally a project by VA Linux and is now it's own open source project. I just need to figure out if anyone actually uses it. One option that looks interesting is the Streamline High Availability and Load Balancing topology. ÃÂÃÂ This allows one to run the Linux Directors and Web Servers into the same hosts. It's not scalable beyond two nodes, but would be enough to cover for Application Server hiccups.
Stuff to look into, anyways...