[lug] Web set up suggestions

[D. Stimits]

Chip Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> How does one set up a large high load linux based web server system.
> This means that there is more than one web server connected to one or
> more oracle boxes, with cache synchronization* between the various web
> servers, etc.?  I'm just looking for general directions such as that can
> be done by squid and apache or the like.
> 
> Also if there is some howto, that would be fine too.
> 
> *By caching I mean caching data between web servers to avoid database
> hits, as opposed to caching web pages.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Chip
> 

I have never used this, but I am told (by someone who generally knows
these things) that LVS works quite well:
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com