Pen is a load balancer for "simple" TCP-based protocols such as HTTP or SMTP. It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside. It automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance.
Re: Round Robin DNS + Virtual Hosting ( + optional BGP Virtual IP Routing) > so does anybody know, which clients are > implementing the standard? Meta links > sound real nice. ...
Re: Round Robin DNS + Virtual Hosting ( + optional BGP Virtual IP Routing) > > A more advanced technique can be used > among (or with the co-operation of) BGP > peering customer...
Re: Predictions I cancel one performance, and suddenly I'm rumoured to be retired? ;-) How about this: One year from now, Make won't have been significantly displaced by any tool which is signi...
Re: Predictions > Your predictions were of course off the > mark and of course you > didn't show up the next week to make > more silly and offensive > predictions. I...
Predictions I predict that the next article will suggest some other build tool which is less portable than make. I predict that this tool will be no more scalable than make for large builds. ...