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Old 28th December 2008
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I know those links but isn't load balancing normally carried on by an applicaton and not the OS directly? The guy is trying to preach to me that there is no way FreeBSD or Linux can beat Windows Server 2008 in clustering for load balancing but isn't Server a web server/OS combination? If so, couldn't I have to argue that a comparable product would be FreeBSD/nginx?

The wiki article says load balancing is usually handled by an application. This guy I think is saying that SMP on fbsd7 does not apply to clustering for load balancing but wouldn't it? I'm not experienced in this area enough to argue back but this guy is saying things that just don't make sense to me.

I'm hoping someone has some performance comparisons.
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