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Originally Posted by Mr.Moony
Well for a start when the fastest Proxy servers in the country start to get unbalanced because every1 is using them constantly the people in the area using them transparently will notice a decrease in service (thought you would have got that one Pem). Not really load balance as such I shall have to agree. The time it will take for the proxy servers to respond to requested urls will get slower and slower and then finaly die.
There are other options around the problems, for instance nthw.com had different meta rules and seemed to get chached allot less than nthw.co.uk
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What you describe is not, as you say, really load balancing. What you also seem to forget is that people are manually switching to the "fastest" servers around the country because their default one is a pile of crap. People don't keep switching proxies for the fun of it, they are forced to do it in order to get anywhere.
If users wern't forced through a proxy then, as pointed out elsewhere, few people would mess with their proxy settings at all - and therefore most people would bypass them and connect to web sites direct - so instead of all the http traffic being funnelled in & out of a few creaking proxy servers, it would be spread across the network(s).