Comments for ipHouse Blog http://blogs.iphouse.net A friendly, local ISP with a view. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:55:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Infrastructure and Other Games, Part 4 by Monitoring, a journey | ipHouse Bloghttp://blogs.iphouse.net/2011/12/08/infrastructure-and-other-games-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-934 Monitoring, a journey | ipHouse Blog Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:55:42 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/?p=1747#comment-934 [...] “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love SaaS”I touched on monitoring in an earlier post but I thought that I would expand on my thoughts.Let me just get this out [...] [...] “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love SaaS”I touched on monitoring in an earlier post but I thought that I would expand on my thoughts.Let me just get this out [...]

]]> Comment on comparing software load balancers by vhttp://blogs.iphouse.net/2011/12/01/comparing-software-load-balancers/comment-page-1/#comment-560 v Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:39:42 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/?p=1679#comment-560 Varnish? nginx? Varnish? nginx?

]]> Comment on comparing software load balancers by nassarmuhttp://blogs.iphouse.net/2011/12/01/comparing-software-load-balancers/comment-page-1/#comment-556 nassarmu Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:55:37 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/?p=1679#comment-556 have you tried pound? its been a while since i last used it, but iirc it compared well against apache: http://www.apsis.ch/pound have you tried pound? its been a while since i last used it, but iirc it compared well against apache:
http://www.apsis.ch/pound

]]> Comment on comparing software load balancers by Doug Rauhttp://blogs.iphouse.net/2011/12/01/comparing-software-load-balancers/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Doug Rau Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:58:20 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/?p=1679#comment-555 nice, thanks! HAProxy hadn't shown up in my first search, but i'll have to try it when i get a chance. nice, thanks! HAProxy hadn’t shown up in my first search, but i’ll have to try it when i get a chance.

]]> Comment on comparing software load balancers by poptixhttp://blogs.iphouse.net/2011/12/01/comparing-software-load-balancers/comment-page-1/#comment-554 poptix Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:19:47 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/?p=1679#comment-554 You should look at more robust solutions such as haproxy, we use it exclusively for TCP application load balancing (HTTP, MySQL, etc).Some sample benchmarks I've just run on a cluster (not currently in production):Single server, static file (1076 bytes), ab -c 4000 -n 100000 100% complete, 10.76 seconds, 9,294 req/s, 430ms per req, 94mbit/sHAProxy cluster (5 servers), static file (1076 bytes), ab -c 4000 -n 100000 100% complete, 7.684 seconds, 13,014 req/s, 307ms per req, 137mbit/sSingle server, PHP script (prime number calculation), ab -c 300 -n 100000 100% complete, 72.513 seconds, 1,379 req/s, 217ms per req, 4.7mbit/sHAProxy cluster (5 servers), PHP script (prime number calculation), ab -c 300 -n 100000 100% complete, 15.956 seconds, 6,267 req/s, 47ms per req, 23.9mbit/sHAProxy cluster (5 servers), PHP script (prime number calculation), ab -c 1500 -n 100000 100% complete, 15.108 seconds, 6,618 req/s, 226ms per req, 24.9mbit/s You should look at more robust solutions such as haproxy, we use it exclusively for TCP application load balancing (HTTP, MySQL, etc).

Some sample benchmarks I’ve just run on a cluster (not currently in production):

Single server, static file (1076 bytes), ab -c 4000 -n 100000
100% complete, 10.76 seconds, 9,294 req/s, 430ms per req, 94mbit/s

HAProxy cluster (5 servers), static file (1076 bytes), ab -c 4000 -n 100000
100% complete, 7.684 seconds, 13,014 req/s, 307ms per req, 137mbit/s

Single server, PHP script (prime number calculation), ab -c 300 -n 100000
100% complete, 72.513 seconds, 1,379 req/s, 217ms per req, 4.7mbit/s

HAProxy cluster (5 servers), PHP script (prime number calculation), ab -c 300 -n 100000
100% complete, 15.956 seconds, 6,267 req/s, 47ms per req, 23.9mbit/s

HAProxy cluster (5 servers), PHP script (prime number calculation), ab -c 1500 -n 100000
100% complete, 15.108 seconds, 6,618 req/s, 226ms per req, 24.9mbit/s

]]> Comment on Why do video games suck now? by Nick Gasperhttp://blogs.iphouse.net/2010/12/21/why-do-video-games-suck-now/comment-page-1/#comment-412 Nick Gasper Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:23:05 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/?p=693#comment-412 No love for FFVII, or the throwback fun that was FFIX? (even though the main character was Goku) I mean, FFVI was great and all but FFV was far more groundbreaking. No love for FFVII, or the throwback fun that was FFIX? (even though the main character was Goku) I mean, FFVI was great and all but FFV was far more groundbreaking.

]]> Comment on Colocation is so 1990s… by Why I love vmForge Virtual Data Centers | ipHouse Bloghttp://blogs.iphouse.net/2011/10/11/colocation-is-so-1990s/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Why I love vmForge Virtual Data Centers | ipHouse Blog Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:03:01 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/?p=1404#comment-364 [...] About « Colocation is so 1990s… [...] [...] About « Colocation is so 1990s… [...]

]]> Comment on vCloud Director 1.5 hoops and hurdles by Why I love vmForge Virtual Data Centers | ipHouse Bloghttp://blogs.iphouse.net/2011/09/05/vcloud-director-1-5-hoops-and-hurdles/comment-page-1/#comment-363 Why I love vmForge Virtual Data Centers | ipHouse Blog Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:59:36 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/?p=1373#comment-363 [...] some posts about the technical side of our new vmForge Virtual Data Center (VDC) product and the hoops and hurdles of VMware’s vCloud Director version [...] [...] some posts about the technical side of our new vmForge Virtual Data Center (VDC) product and the hoops and hurdles of VMware’s vCloud Director version [...]

]]> Comment on IPv6 – Tech Talk with customers by ipHouse and World IPv6 day! | ipHouse Bloghttp://blogs.iphouse.net/2011/02/21/ipv6-tech-talk-with-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-354 ipHouse and World IPv6 day! | ipHouse Blog Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:34:57 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/?p=913#comment-354 [...] and enabled, though customer premise equipment gear is very lacking in IPv6 capabilities. See our previous blog post regarding this [...] [...] and enabled, though customer premise equipment gear is very lacking in IPv6 capabilities. See our previous blog post regarding this [...]

]]> Comment on Something touched me deep inside. by pjongewardhttp://blogs.iphouse.net/2010/12/21/something-touched-me-deep-inside/comment-page-1/#comment-342 pjongeward Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:07:14 +0000 http://blogs.iphouse.net/?p=709#comment-342 Nice article Bil. Great information. Keep it coming. My son uses YouTube primarily for learning new card tricks. He's on there all the time! Nice article Bil. Great information. Keep it coming. My son uses YouTube primarily for learning new card tricks. He’s on there all the time!

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