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20th July 2007 - Link Blog

mod_proxy_balancer gets a thumbs up. Chris Miles explains mod_proxy_balance’s hot spare feature. nginx doesn’t appear to support this, unless I’ve missed something in the documentation.

Posted 20th July 2007 at 5:44 pm

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