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04-11-2012, 05:13 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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3 Servers - Best way to load balance
I have 3 servers and I'm trying to find out the best and simplest way to load balance the traffic across them for one of my sites?
I do not want to go with round robin. Ive been looking into things like pound but I'm not sure if that is going to be the best way to go.
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04-11-2012, 07:21 PM #2Web Hosting Guru
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04-11-2012, 07:47 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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I've done setups like this using ha-proxy, works quite well. However, before you do this, you might want to consider offloading the database (assuming the site is database driven) to another server, and setting up a dedicated HTTP only server.
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04-11-2012, 10:49 PM #4WHT Addict
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Pound, HAproxy, or Nginx would work nicely as load balancers for low traffic sites.
However if you are pushing alot of traffic, more than what a single servers NIC can handle then you would need to go with a level 4 load balancer like LVS-DR.Last edited by prickett233; 04-11-2012 at 10:52 PM.
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04-12-2012, 05:24 AM #5Web Hosting Evangelist
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haproxy and nginx would run just fine as load balancers.
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04-12-2012, 02:25 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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nginx really works great, highly recommended.
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04-15-2012, 05:49 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Nginx is more than suitable for most setups, fairly easy to setup as well
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04-23-2012, 04:42 PM #8Web Hosting Guru
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If your site isn't too complex, a simple round-robin DNS might be the best bet.
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04-23-2012, 05:24 PM #9Attack The Day
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Here's an example on how to setup a load balance solution with Nginx :-)
http://wiki.nginx.org/LoadBalanceExampleNewYorkCityServers.com - Specializing In Dedicated Servers and Financial Hosting
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04-23-2012, 11:05 PM #10******* Unleaded
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If they are all local, then a hardware load balancer is a good bet, or Windows + IIS + NLBS which is actually faster than a hardware device but needs special switch configuration.
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05-01-2012, 05:33 AM #11Web Hosting Master
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definitely check out haproxy for load balancing http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
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