On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:39:23 -0800, David Lang said:

> Much as you may hate the abuse of standards and protocols that F5 and other load
> balancers use to trick both clients and servers into operating without knowing
> that there are multiple machines serving a website, they do make things a lot
> more better than if you tried make a website reliable and scale without them.

Oh, I'm fully aware of that.  We have several of the beasts across the
hall from my office. :)