Re: proxy recommendations?

Frederick Cheung
Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:04:34 -0000

On Aug 8, 10:53 pm, Hassan Schroeder
<hassan.schroe...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Sorta OT, sorta not. :-)
>
> I want to put a {something} in front of multiple app servers in order
> to be able to do rolling updates by quiescing traffic to one, updating
> it, starting it, sleep ''til ready, enable,
//lather/rinse/repeat//.

I haven''t used it for exactly this but haproxy is generally pretty
good about this sort of stuff - definitely worth looking at.

Fred
>
> I know I''ve done this before with Apache httpd but the current
2.2.11
> seems *not* to recognize changes to httpd.conf on restart -- it needs
> (apparently) a complete stop/start cycle to recognize that a balancer
> has had a member removed/added.
>
> This is using either bin/apachectl -k restart (with httpd.conf changed)
> or bin/apachetcl -k restart -f some_other_config_file -- neither seems
> to take.
>
> So -- alternatives? Nginx? Pound? other? Something scriptable via
> Capistrano would of course be awesome  :-)
>
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