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Don't use Pound for load balancing - Emmett Shear

Emmett Shear — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:35:58 -0400

The distinction between a web server and a load balancer like Pound is trivial. Nginx can do everything pound can do (balance incoming requests across backends) and many more things (serve files, do complex access control, etc.).

Don't use Pound for load balancing - vietwow

vietwow — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:18:41 -0400

Why you think Nginx is a good replacement for pound ? Pound is Load balancer (like LVS), and Nginx is a web server (like apache, IIS ...). I don't think they have any relationship ?

Don't use Pound for load balancing - Friend

Friend — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:45:41 -0400

I use nginx as back-end and it works great :)

Thanks for graphs with pound!

Don't use Pound for load balancing - Emmett Shear

Emmett Shear — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:33:33 -0500

Thanks Jason...I'll look into using that plugin.

Don't use Pound for load balancing - anon

anon — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:44:46 -0500

We are using LVS for loadbalancing and it seems that it almost doesn't need any cpu time at all, even at peaks it doesnt go over 5% (on a P4 3Ghz) and peaks are like 2K requests per second.

Don't use Pound for load balancing - jason Allen

jason Allen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:00:20 -0500

Beware the naive round-robin load balancing! If one of your processes hangs, it will keep queuing requests on it - even though all other processes might be doing nothing.

There's an experimental "fair" load balancing plugin - we've had reasonable luck with it.

Don't use Pound for load balancing - Steven Romej

Steven Romej — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:49:02 -0500

I recall reading something similar last year and ended up deploying http://rankforest.com with just Nginx. Good to see some hard data from someone with a site that surely gets heavy traffic.

Don't use Pound for load balancing - Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:11:36 -0500

nginx is great with both memory and cpu usage. been using it on http://skribit.com for a while now.

Don't use Pound for load balancing - Justin

Justin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:00:29 -0500

Great post, Emmett!