Can OracleAS Web Cache be used without a 3rd-party network load balancer?
Many customers run a single instance of OracleAS Web Cache without a 3rd-party network load balancer. For these customers, the cache’s excellent stability combined with its auto-restart functionality provide adequate system availability. Nevertheless, Oracle recommends that customers run OracleAS Web Cache “behind” a hardware load balancer in order to avoid a single point of failure.