I'm interested in Citrix product NetScaler.
It's an applicance that you put in front of the web-servers.
Features I like is:
- SSL offload an acceleration (good because of performance and that Verisign charges per machine)
- GZIP compression of HTTP traffic
- Caching of static content (images, css, js etc.)
- Load balancing
Are there any similar products with features like these?
Best Answer
Yes, certainly.
There are also (quite many) cheaper load balancer appliances. Some examples:
The one thing that stands out in your post is caching. Many load balancers can do some small-scale caching, but it is usually best done by dedicated HTTP caches, installed as software on servers. Examples are Squid and Varnish.
Read my previous post here, and find the links at the bottom and follow them.