I want to setup a loadbalancer with 2 machines. The loadbalancer should reside on one machine and split load between itself and other machine (with a greater percentage of request hitting other machine). There is no issue of cookie and session, since every request is independent. Also I have given my client an IP address (something like http://99.99.9.9/aaa.php ) not a domain name so I want the request coming to that IP to be load balanced. Both my machines are VPS residing on linode. How do I configure apache mod proxy balancer(if its possible that way)?
2 Answers
HAProxy is great, I've used this quite a bit: http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
Pound is another one: http://linux.die.net/man/8/pound
I now use Zeus (With Joyent) and can't recommend it enough: http://www.zeus.com/products/load-balancer/index.html
As for mod_proxy, I wouldn't recommend it. But here is a tutorial if you'd still like to pursue it: http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/LoadBalancingWithModProxy
- thnx...how do i configure it to split load between self and another machine?Ashwin– Ashwin2010-12-07 15:52:54 +00:00Commented Dec 7, 2010 at 15:52
- Each of those load balancers listed has documentation on that. The link I posted for mod_proxy also tells you how to do it.Mike– Mike2010-12-07 19:53:52 +00:00Commented Dec 7, 2010 at 19:53
- 1 more thing how do I make it run on startup?Ashwin– Ashwin2010-12-09 08:01:51 +00:00Commented Dec 9, 2010 at 8:01
I cannot speak for mod proxy balancer, but Linux Virtual Server will do everything you have asked for above.
