Round-robin for high availability?

[cdevidal]

Kevin Darcy wrote:
> A 5-second delay on half of the accesses is not acceptable to most folks
> in the market for a "high-availability" solution.

Y'know, now that I think about it, you have a point.  Every other
access to the page will pause.

Good news: I can run Squid or rsync'd slave on the other IP to also
serve up the same content and kill the 5-second delay.

Also good news: Even if I don't, the 5-second delay is only on the
initial load.  Subsequent reloads (even Ctrl+reloads) always hit the
live server.  Try it and see.  Set up your local https server with some
links and click them, you should not see the delay on anything.

So 50% of the first loads to a website take 5 seconds longer.  If I
personally were browsing a website and the first load took 5 seconds
longer but everything else was snappy I'd just assume it were traffic
and quickly forget about it.

So while you have a point, I don't believe it's in any way a
deal-killer.