Thursday, May 1, 2008

Opensource Load Balancing

Got this from an apache mailing list post:

"One (open source) solution would be to use an LVS load balancing server (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org) to do the load balancing. If you want high availability (no single point of failure in the load balancer) couple LVS with heartbeat (http://www.linux-ha.org), so that if your active load balancer fails, the inactive load balancer takes over.
There is a learning curve with both those technologies, so if you don't have much time (or even if you do), it might be worth a visit to http://www.ultramonkey.org, Simon Horman's project site, in which he supplies prebuilt packages to combine LVS and heartbeat together."

Another one:
"http://www.apsis.ch/pound/"

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