Load balancing mode suggestion

[srivastavaashish200]

Hi All,

Can anyone suggest which mode of load balancing is best in between TCP and HTTP and why?.. As I have checked nginx provides HTTP mode based load balanciong ,while HA proxy provide TCP and HTTP both .

And also please suggest which is better in nginx and HA proxy ?

Thanks ,

Ashish

[modserv]

Read about keepalived…

[raghuu]

Hi

The best option for configuring load balancing

Load balancer for tomcat7 server

@NITIN_SHRIVASTAV Hi Nitin if you have two servers hosting the same application then you can overcome this issue by using the dns round-robin techniques, once you configure this then dns will take care about the incoming requests to your server and it will automatically choose the server depending on the priority, Configuring the DNS for round-robin to your server just open the zone file of your webserver and add these two lines at the end www 60 IN A (ipaddr of first server) www 60 IN A (…

[srivastavaashish200]

Hi Raghu …

the question is about the mode of load balancing not for the algorithm of load balancing …

“Can anyone suggest which mode of load balancing is best in between TCP and HTTP and why?”

regards,

Ashish

[raghuu]

Hmm for that my choice is HAProxy. It is very fast and reliable and also once look at RedHat Load Balancer