LVS Deployment
This page is just for promoting LVS usage. Here is a table of some LVS deployment that we know.
Site
Description
LVS Notes
linux.com
The Linux Portal
LVS web cluster
sourceforge.net
The largest open source development site
LVS (load balancing HTTP, HTTPS, FTP,
SSH, CVS). See this report
themes.org
The largest interface/themes site for
the X Window System
LVS web cluster
wwwcache.ja.net
UK National JANET Web Cache Service
40 Squid
cache servers in three LVS clusters, ~900GB content
shipped/day. More information
www.zope.org
The leading Open Source web application server
web cluster, for more information
masks.org
Online mask museum
An LVS cluster of four Pentium and Pentium II class
computers. More information
TuxFamily.org
Free hosting for free software like
sourceforge and
savannah
using LVS/heartbeat (2 load balancers failover and 8
real servers) for all the hosting services
www.care2.com
Largest web site community of people who care about the
environment
6+ web servers and a single load balancer by
Jeremy Brand. more
information
valinux.com
VA Linux Systems, Inc.
LVS web cluster
www.real.com
Real Networks, Inc.
LVS media cluster (>20 nodes)
www.netwalk.com
A full service Internet Access and Presence
Provider
LVS web hosting cluster
www.greenheck.com
Leading manufacturer of air movement and
control equipment
LVS web cluster (5 node).
Cliff Baeseman
provides two pictures (1,
2) of the cluster
map.net
An ICP that allows you to explore the
Internet in the same way you explore a map
LVS web cluster (6 nodes) by
Brian Edmonds
anandtech.com
a big hardware review site
two primary-backup load balancers and eleven web servers,
more
information
www.tiscover.com
The 3rd largest Portal Site in Austria with more than
500,000 visits per day
LVS web cluster
www.cycosmos.com
An virtual community website in United
Kingdom and Germany
LVS web cluster
www.mybiz.com
mybiz provides customer service and marketing
tools that enable small businesses to build stronger and more
profitable customer relationships.
LVS cluster handling just about every public
service, mainly web, plus back-end clusters for in-house
daemons. managed by tc
lewis
Undergraduate Compute Cluster
Undergraduate Students in the Electronics and
Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton
(England) use it for compilation, and running software
remotely
It consists of 3 dual processor real servers and
balances telnet and ssh connections. More
information
datingfaces.com
Online dating site
An LVS cluster with 2 load balancers (VS/DR) and 10 real
servers handles about 1.6-2 million hits per day. More
information
www.chez.com
perso.respublica.fr
perso.libertysurf.fr
perso.libertysurf.se
perso.libertysurf.co.uk
perso.skyrock.com
perso.worldonline.fr
perso.infonie.fr Tiscali Group's massive web hosting services 4 LVS directors/load balancers: 1 for chez.com (+ 1 for fail over) and 1 for the 7 other domains (+ 1 for fail over), load balancing ~80+50Mb/s of HTTP and FTP
perso.respublica.fr
perso.libertysurf.fr
perso.libertysurf.se
perso.libertysurf.co.uk
perso.skyrock.com
perso.worldonline.fr
perso.infonie.fr Tiscali Group's massive web hosting services 4 LVS directors/load balancers: 1 for chez.com (+ 1 for fail over) and 1 for the 7 other domains (+ 1 for fail over), load balancing ~80+50Mb/s of HTTP and FTP
serve.com
Large shared hosting environment
LVS web cluster with live fail-over
noguska.com
Noguska web site and other web hostings
1 Director, 2 Realserver LVS-NAT cluster. It serves
noguska.com and about 7 other domains.
More information
yescall.com
One of the largest yellowpage site in Korea
1 director/load balancer(single Pentium3 SuseLinux 7.3)
and 4+ FreeBSD 4.X web server cover about 12mil. hits/day static HTTP
traffic by Direct Routing. Setup by
SangSeok Park. (under
consideration to increase director and realserver for performance
and high-availability)
astro.com
Astrodienst Homepage
One LVS director running in VS/NAT mode with four real
servers. Setup by
Alois Treindl.
www.songn.com
Music portal Site with soribada(famous mp3 p2p in
Korea) in Korea
One LVS director running in VS/DR mode with 6+
nodes of Windows 2000 servers, setup by Wonyoung Choi.
www.prideindustries.com
PRIDE Industries - Creating jobs for people with
disabilities. We host several websites which compliment the
services we provide to our customers.
Two Directors running LVS-NAT and Keepalived
driving three Realservers. Everything is Linux and we are using
FWMARKs for persistence port groupings. Setup by Richard L. Allbery.
University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham Web Caching Service
The Web Caching Service runs in a cluster of four
Intel Pentium-based servers managed by two LVS directors. More
information
BTexact
Technologies
BTexact Technologies is BT's advanced
communication technologies business.
Using the LVS/NAT clusters
Electronic Data
Systems
EDS is the leading global information technology
(IT) services company
Using an LVS/NAT cluster in Linux-based hosting
environment for eds.ch, eds.de, eds.no, eds.dk, eds.nl, etc. The
cluster has two LVS directors and eight real servers.
ibiblio
The public's library and digital archive
The LVS cluster has redundant load balancers, 8
production nodes (real servers), and 1 development node. More
information
CBN
Well known established ISP In Indonesia
LVS, DNS and Proxy Squid, balancer, cluster
Opus
Technology Systems WTS cluster
The WTS cluster offers Health Software for the
Worcester County Health Department
It's a win2k terminal server cluster using LVS/HA. More information
2Checkout
2Checkout.com, Inc. (2CO) is the online distribution center for over 300,000 tangible or digital products and services.
LVS is used to load balance web servers. More information
Godado
Godado is a pay-per-click italian search engine.
An LVS cluster of 4 web servers is to feed partners' sites with contents.
Mendel University of Agriculture
and Forestry
An eLearning poject at Mendel University of Agriculture
and Forestry in Brno, Czech republic
An LVS cluster consists of loadbalancer, five real servers, database server, data storage and development server.
Ruwaard van Putten Hospital
Information systems at Ruwaard van Putten Hospital
One 2-node LVS-DR cluster for 8 Windows Terminal Servers, and one 2-node LVS-NAT cluster for the hospital's own (12 servers) information system.
BullionVault.com
Online gold trading platform
Both http://www.bullionvault.com/ and http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/ use LVS to load balance Tomcat, httpd and postfix servers.
Web site
One of the largest computer manufacturing company
Two LVS clusters for American and European operations
Note: This deployment information is summarized from many messages and web pages. If there is any mistake or incorrect information over time, or you don't want to show your site here, please let me know, I will fix or remove it. Thanks!
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