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On Wednesday 10 this week we had our Skype meeting with Peter Roßbach. Peter Roßbach is commiter from the Apache Tomcat project. In our company we have a large tomcat farm with about 80 tomcats which are powering different applications.

For load balancing we use pound at the moment but we would like to migrate to Apache AJP1.3 as load balancer. Apache is a more flexible way because we will have the availability change the running configuration without loosing the actual connections.
Three years ago we tried Apache as load balancer but we had no success with it. But, I have to say that we hadn’t enough experience with it.

So my idea was to contact Peter Roßbach. I fist met him at the Linux Day 2008 in Berlin. He had a conference about Apache high availability and clustering. Now I contact him and I must say that he is a very impressive guy. He was the first one who was able to follow me through different regions in a few phrases.
By now I thought that I can configure Apache Tomcats and AJP 1.3. but he showed my limits.

I hope that I will have the chance to learn a lot from Peter because I think he one of the few who knows nearly everything of Apache and Tomcat.

Michael Prokop from the grml project sad in a conference at the Grazer Linux Tag 2008: “Always try to learn from the best” – Yes I will try!

If could I will post the resulting configuration an techniques here.