[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Marc Van Dyck]

Phillip Helbigundress to reply explained :
> In article <f88842c5-27c1-4cb6-b972-e40e36b8ad5do at googlegroups.com>, D W
> <ultradwc at gmail.com> writes: 
>
>> There are MULTIPLE different approaches to doing this. Most involve
>> HTTP (web) cookies and may involve DNS round robin load balancing or
>> load balancers. 
>
> Why not use the metric server and load broaker on a shared-everything
> cluster? 
>
>> But how would this be accomplished using Apache or another web package
>> on OpenVMS? 
>
> See above.
>
>> Also if you house a DB like RDB on a separate OpenVMS server, what
>> would be the fastest connect solution to obtain the fastest data
>> transport rates between the DB server and other web servers? 
>
> DECnet?

Was thinking about that too. It would also protect your database 
servers
from anything using IP...

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Marc Van Dyck