HTTP Load Balancer – Best Software HTTP Load Balancers

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Right now we only have one back-end server per site/web service. I'd be interested to hear people's experiences with various load balancer apps (something that runs on Linux).

What would you recommend?

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According to the episode 27 of the StackOverflow podcast, the Reddit guys really seem to like HAProxy. Here's a brief tutorial showing HAProxy being used with Amazon's EC2. You can find much more information at the HAProxy web site.

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Nginx as load balancer to nginx webservers

If your backend is using a virtual host and requires the Host header to contain the actual hostname of the site, you will need to add this to your load balancer location:

proxy_set_header Host $host;

This will forward whatever Host: header the client sent to the load balancer on to the back-end. This exact scenario is documented on the nginx wiki.

How to load-balance a load balancer

You can't, which is why load-balancing has nothing to do with availability.

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How to load-balance a load balancer

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