Load Balancer recommendations

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Published on 2011-02-12T01:56:12Z Indexed on 2011/02/12 7:26 UTC
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I provide hosting service for about 250 clients to date, and this is increasing on a monthly basis. For each client, I have 2 "services" configured for L4 balancing / persistence .. one on port 80, another for port 443 which redirects to another internal port as well as 4 servers per service.

This equates to a total of 500 "services" and 2000 "servers".

I'm currently running with a couple CoyotePoint load balancers, and have had a look at some Barracudas but so far I'm really not impressed by those.

Could anyone recommend some good load balancers which would be able to support this sort of load ? And which offer a good API, or shell access to automate management.

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