On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi guys, in my typical "ignore the rules when I have an audience of
> smart techie people", I thought I'd poll the group about software load
> balancing. I know next to nothing about it, but I'm deploying my site
>
Some really heavy hit sites run Varnish as a reverse proxy/balancer.
It is designed from the ground up to run extremely high volumes.
There's also Apache TrafficServer which powers Yahoo! infrastructure.