Tag: pound
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Load Balancer Update
A while back, I posted about some testing we were doing of various software load balancers for WordPress.com. We chose to use Pound and have been using it past 2-ish years. We started to run into some issues, however, so we starting looking elsewhere. Some of these problems were: Lack of true configuration reload support…
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Static hostname hashing in Pound
WordPress.com just surpassed her 300th server today. How do we distribute requests to all those servers? We use Pound of course. For those of you not familiar with Pound, it is an open source software load balancer that is easy to setup and maintain, flexible, and fast! In general, we do not stick individual sessions…
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