This is a pretty neat hack and I can certainly see the fun in setting up something like this. However, I am amused that the load balancer is a fairly powerful

This is a pretty neat hack and I can certainly see the fun in setting up something like this. However, I am amused that the load balancer is a fairly powerful PC[1] that could probably serve the web site just as effectively as the whole cluster of 8 RPis and then some. On the other hand, the PC probably uses a lot more power... 1: http://raspberrywebserver.com/raspberrypicluster/raspberry-pi-cluster.html http://raspberrywebserver.com/raspberrypicluster/raspberry-p...