We use the LVS system (www.linuxvirtualserver.org) and I have to say it kicks butt! Combine it with heartbeat (www.linux-ha.org) for high-availability load balancing :)

Is there software available out there that will load balance between 3~5 web servers? Ie micro$oft's load balancing allows you to have say 5 computers and have them aliased to 1 ip address and requests are sent the quickest responding server? I would like to implement around 4 apache servers to replace an IIS web farm but I need this failover incase servers go down. Running beowulf clustering is not a viable solution either... -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle.Net james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 20 8731 3619

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