[Catalyst] FW: Clustering catalyst apps

Matt S Trout dbix-class at trout.me.uk
Tue May 9 20:44:16 CEST 2006


Jules Agee wrote:
> Dave C wrote:
>> On a larger scale, we happen to offer a global caching platform
>> similar to Akamai built on pure Open Source software which will route
>> around an entire data center going offline (we have ten different data
>> centers).
> 
> Anyone used pound <http://www.apsis.ch/pound/>? Looks like a pretty
> interesting solution for inexpensive http reverse-proxy, failover, load
> balancing, ssl wrapper, etc.

Looks interesting, although I think for serious scaling I'd probably 
prefer perlbal due to its being somewhat smarter (and easier to extend). 
Probably worth trialling and benchmarking both, mind.




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