Category Archives: load balancing

Where in the world is AMO? (Part IV: Take 2)

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Nearly a month after the first attempt to get AMO (addons.mozilla.org) served out of Amterdam as well as San Jose failed, we’re ready to try again!
I finally got the replacement hardware (Netscaler 9000s) in Amsterdam up this morning. During our Tuesday night maintenance window I’ll be switching DNS.
For those late to this saga, take [...]

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How to build a better (SSL proxy) mouse trap (with lighttpd)?

Friday, May 25th, 2007

We run our web farm behind a pair of Citrix Netscalers in both San Jose and Amsterdam. What really hits these boxes hard is the SSL offloaded traffic and in certain instances has caused the Netscalers to fall over on themselves.
Right now our setup looks like:

(Pardon the shapes, it’s what I have to work [...]

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