On 21/09/2007, Callum Macdonald <callum.macdonald+pound-list@gmail.com> wrote:

G'day,

I have a (relatively) simple question to which I can't find the answer
online.

How many servers (assuming similar spec) can a single load balancer handle?

For example, could 1 pound server manage requests to 12 servers (I'm
assuming yes), what about 200 servers, or 2'000 servers.

I'm working on an idea around scaling web applications by making each node
on the grid a combination of an application server and a load balancer (so
it would offload requests it can't deal with to other servers). But this
ratio may be the critical number... :)

Any advice / suggestions you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Callum.
http://www.callum-macdonald.com/

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