Comments on: Load Balancer Open Source Software

By: khaled

khaled — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:32:02 +0000

thank you

By: Sri

Sri — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:16:49 +0000

Hi,
I just gone through your posts.
this site is excellent…
thanks for the contributors.

actually I am new to load balancing.
I just worked with haproxy and nginx with a little basic configuration.
After working , both seems to be a bit same.

among haproxy and nginx, which load balancer is best interms of performance.

my requirement is I will be having 3 servers running a j2ee based web application (session based application like jpetstore).
I will be changing the configuration file dynamically via script (just to add IPAddress) . so i need to have a load balancer which supports dynamic reloading of configuration file, without restarting the load balancer service.

can you please suggest a load balancer, which will suite my need.
Since i am a beginner to load balancing, I am unable to select the best one,..

or if you know any other load balancer , i request you to suggest me.

thanks in advance,
sri

By: Emilio

Emilio — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:12:47 +0000

I would like recommend Zen load balancer http://zenloadbalancer.sourceforge.net a open source tcp load balancer which you can configure tcp farms load balancers, create advanced checks, monitorice server status and farms status, etc…

By: dany trad

dany trad — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:31:02 +0000

hi, i have a small network about 100 user and i use windows 2003 server with ISA, and i have the syswan sw88 load balancer for 8 wan, i search for software for load balancing instead of the syswan any budy can help me on it? 10x

By: Janelle

Janelle — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:57:20 +0000

I need a load-balancing software that maintains a users session, always sending him to the same server whenever he accesses the site. Also, more tricky, I need for the software to kick him off when that server is down, instead of transferring him to an up server. Others accessing a site after user A, will be directed to the next available server. Does such a piece of software exsist? It really goes against the whole notion of load-balancing, but thats kind of what I need. Any suggestions?

By: Deiveegan

Deiveegan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:30:16 +0000

share me the LVS configuration in redaht 5 is it supported for squid (proxy)

By: drakpzone

drakpzone — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:21:32 +0000

I’d suggest ha-proxy, which in terms of lb leaves the rust out in the dust

By: ari_stress

ari_stress — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:14:42 +0000

@Jacky
RHCS = polished and feature rich, but it’s vendor oriented (RH only).

Linux-Ha = not-so-polished but comparable feature rich.

I recommend Linux-Ha.

By: Jeff Schroeder

Jeff Schroeder — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:00:18 +0000

From LVS, all you really need to use is their vrrp daemon, Keepalived. It is really simple to setup and “Just Works TM” using multicast to send heartbeats between various nodes.
http://keepalived.org

I’ve written several scripts to help work with keepalived on various state changes you can get…

By: Jacky H.Chan

Jacky H.Chan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:05:21 +0000

Hi Ari,

I am also considering to implement a failover cluster. What are your comment on Linux-Ha and RHCS? Do you implement the two together?

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:59:46 +0000

ari_stress,

LVS easy; you also aware of RHCS.

By: ari_stress

ari_stress — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:10:00 +0000

Hi Vivek,
I’ve been using Linux-Ha and RHCS for failover clustering. I’m interested in Load balancing cluster. Can you share a tutorial about it (LVS)?
Thank you very much.