Looking for a loadbalancer

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I am looking for an open source loadbalancer for linux. My requirements are simple. I want One load balancer infront of multiple webservers. It should be able to split the load evenly among the webserver using a round robin fashion. Easy to install and simple to use. Moreover I want to add webservers dynamically(on the go) to the loadbalancer without the need to stop/restart the loadbalancer.

Thanks for your help.

-Sethu

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '11 at 14:48

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Have a look at LVS (ipvs) LinuxVirtualServer I'm using it for load-balancing a proxy cluster. It has both simple round-robin and more complicated balancing policies.

answered Jun 08 '11 at 14:48

HUB

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 08 '11 at 16:07

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Nginx allows you to change the configuration on the fly. See the section "Loading a New Configuration Using Signals" here

answered Jun 08 '11 at 16:07

HTTP500

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '11 at 15:58

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haproxy will do this as well.

I have setup Keepalived for various clients. It automates all the IPVS stuff.

answered Jun 09 '11 at 15:58

Wim Kerkhoff

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score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 08 '11 at 14:51

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Would a simple DNS load balancing work for you?

answered Jun 08 '11 at 14:51

Alex

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