Load balancing question - Does Vbulletin require Cookie/URL persistence?

[jeremycs]

If I have 1 mysql database server for the back end
and (2) php/mysql servers for the front end

Is there anything in Vbulletin that requires that the person is sent back to the same client machine each access?

[Steve Machol]

I'm moving this to the Server Configuration forum where I think you'll be more likely to get an answer.

[Dave#]

If I have 1 mysql database server for the back end
and (2) php/mysql servers for the front end

Is there anything in Vbulletin that requires that the person is sent back to the same client machine each access?
no.

[The Prohacker]

If I have 1 mysql database server for the back end
and (2) php/mysql servers for the front end

Is there anything in Vbulletin that requires that the person is sent back to the same client machine each access?
Simple answer: No

To be more specific certain things about vBulletin you'll have to keep in mind. When you are doing a clustered front end for your forum, unless you do something like a file share or posting files directly to a staging server to be synced out, you will have to keep attachments and other uploads in your database.

We have had problems with administrators uploading things like smiles to the forum not knowing that they are really only uploading to a single web server and their changes are going to be over written on the next sync. This was partially my fault for not informing them of what can and cannot work.