[lvs-users] remomendation/advice.

[rek2GNU/Linux]

Hi guys I am new to the list and to LVS..
I have a project for a couple customers to build a
load balancer  for web/mysql services, and this needs to be up
24/7 of course! hehe
I always rather use free software than to buy a proprietary product that 
does
the same, so I want to give LVS a try on my staging/testing network.
what do you guys recommend for me to use under this circumstances?
I will have 2-3 apache  with at least 2 mysql doing replication in the 
back of the webservers..
also what solution is there so LVS is also redundant so there is no 
single point of failure.

Thanks so much and I hope to be part of the community soon.