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

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On Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 9:03:50 AM UTC-5, Dirk Munk wrote:
> D W wrote: 
> > There are MULTIPLE different approaches to doing this. Most involve HTTP (web) cookies and may involve DNS round robin load balancing or load balancers. 
> > 
> > But how would this be accomplished using Apache or another web package on OpenVMS? 
> > 
> > Would you use the same approach? 
> > 
> > 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? 
> > 
> 
> First of all, I would look at WASD, and not Apache. WASD is (at least) 
> VMS Cluster aware, and is much and much more powerful (performance) than 
> Apache, at least it was the last time I looked. 
> 
> You could use a DNS server with round robin functionality. That way you 
> can use multiple IP interfaces on one VMS server, as well as more VMS 
> servers. 
> 
> Perhaps you can use DECRAM , however it has not been ported to x86-64 
> yet. Don't know how difficult that would be. DECRAM disks behave like 
> normal disks, so shadowing etc. is supported.

do you mean like port forwarding or a www1. type of solution? I'm going to implement DNS services on their system just in case for redundancy.