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Suppose that a hypotetical webapp keeps one connections per user (eg: chat app using comet, long pooling, etc...). How can i load balance such thing to scale beyond the connection limit of a single machine (C10[0]K) ?

I can see round robin DNS as a solution, would like to know what else would be possible...

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Are there not a million dupes of this question? – Lightness Races in Orbit May 24 '11 at 14:46
I also thought so, but couldn't find... could you point some? – Julio Faerman May 25 '11 at 13:16
Look to the right. – Lightness Races in Orbit May 25 '11 at 13:18
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The far extreme of this is Geographic DNS distributing discrete round-robin IP address pools which in turn point to clustered hardware load-balancers using Virtual IP to handle failover. I say hardware since the big hardware load-balancers are designed for truly massive connection-counts.

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That's what i think too... do you have an idea of how much "massive" this count is? – Julio Faerman May 25 '11 at 13:17
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dns load balancing will do but you don't have much control over it - better use a load balancer.

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The problem is what to do when you exceed the capacity of a single load balancer. – Julio Faerman May 25 '11 at 13:16
have two or more load balancers handling the traffic, these can as well be mixed with dns round robin – silviud May 25 '11 at 15:01
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