I'd like to clarify: A solution that involves other-than-software is not automatically buy-vs-build, nor an appliance. Broadly, to me, it's usually about choo

I'd like to clarify: A solution that involves other-than-software is not automatically buy-vs-build, nor an appliance. Broadly, to me, it's usually about choosing the right hardware and assembling/configuring it in a "custom"[1] way. This is usually significantly cheaper than trying to get anything off-the-shelf to scale. stay away from pound etc, just stick to LVS I've learned to stay away from anything with heavy dependency on kernel code. My preference is HApoxy. [1] Optimized for the problem at hand, which, usually, is remarkably commonplace, just nowhere near as commonplace as a lowest common denominator web server.