Beat Traffic into Shape with Pound.

The article discusses the reverse proxy load balancer, Pound. According to the author, Pound is a SSL wrapper and HTTP sanitizer. Pound balances servers and automatically removes the system from the pool of available servers. It can also track sessions between a client browser and the host server. Among the techniques supported by Pound include client IP address, basic authentication, URL parameter, cookie value and header value. Installation of Pound is faster when the Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) package is also installed.