http://simonwillison.net/2009-11-03T10:45:05+00:00Simon Willison2009-11-03T10:45:05+00:002009-11-03T10:45:05+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/3/loadbalancers/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2009/10/load-balancing-at-github-why-ldirectord/"><p>I loathe [hardware load balancers]. They’re expensive, restrictive, slow, and generally cause you a lot more pain and suffering than they’re worth. At my last job, one of my projects was to convert most of one of our existing clusters from a load-balancing appliance to use keepalived. Why would we do this? Because the $100k worth of appliance wasn’t capable of doing the job that $15k worth of commodity hardware and an installation of keepalived were handling with ease.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2009/10/load-balancing-at-github-why-ldirectord/">Matt Palmer</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/keepalived">keepalived</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/load-balancing">load-balancing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/matt-palmer">matt-palmer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ops">ops</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin</a></p>