Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 460CF96DC for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21193 invoked by uid 500); 28 Oct 2011 02:16:41 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 21155 invoked by uid 500); 28 Oct 2011 02:16:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 21147 invoked by uid 99); 28 Oct 2011 02:16:41 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:16:41 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [209.85.161.52] (HELO mail-fx0-f52.google.com) (209.85.161.52) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:16:34 +0000 Received: by faan26 with SMTP id n26so4868956faa.11 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:16:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.76.217 with SMTP id d25mr2413710fak.31.1319768172130; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:16:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.87.65 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:16:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [108.20.175.10] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:16:11 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: BigCouch load balancer From: Sam Bisbee To: user@couchdb.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:17 PM, YIXIAO SHEN wrot= e: > Hi all, > > Has anyone used BigCouch to build CouchDB clusters? I'm following BigCouc= h > readme to do so, and I'm stuck here: > > =C2=A0'Because every node can handle requests equally, you may want to pu= t a load > balancer in front of the cluster and set up a round-robin strategy for > distributing incoming requests across all of your cluster's nodes' > > I don't have any idea of how to put a load balancer, could anyone kindly > tell me how to do so? Thanks, > > yixiao > If you're already using Rackspace services then I would recommend their solutions. Especially if you're using their cloud/vm servers: the load balancer option is pretty slick. Cheers, -- Sam Bisbee