I'm developing a site which has a high availabilty requirement. I'm interested in load balancing a couple of apache/tomcat web servers. I was thinking about purchasing a couple of used Cisco Local Director (for $300 each) and wire for failover but not sure how reliable (since the technology is a few years old) and how easy it would be to set up for a fairly technical sysadmin with no Cisco experience.
I am interested in any advice on the best (least complicated, low cost) approach to solving this issue. My preference is an appliance with no moving parts to fail but with a limited budget not sure if its possible. The used Cisco LD's was just an idea, would consider any solution (under $1000).
Thanks in advance,
Brad
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