OT: Load Balancers

Hi Guys,

I have inherited a network which includes a Cisco Content Switches to do
load balancing between multiple Web Servers.

Our web infrastructure is Windows /IIS based.
I'm looking for a replacement for the Content switches at the moment.

Many people on this list have suggested F5 load balancers but this is a no
go for us - its just outside our budget.
I've been looking at a couple of different options including HAProxy on
Debian and Varnish on FreeBSD but I'm not convinced of either.

I just wanted to put this out there to see what other people are using
successfully with IIS.
I'm certainly open to any suggestions both paid and free/open source.

Thanks in advance,

Shane

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Received on Mon Jun 14 2010 - 13:50:50 ART