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Equal load balancing


cioby23
11-02-2011, 19:41
Thanks a lot for your responses. I have resolved my issues after all by using Pound HTTP load balancer.
I have tested and it suits my needs perfectly.
IP Load Balancing is already set in the manager, but I needed to split the traffic for multiple domains into 2 mirror webservers.
Regards,

Razakel
11-02-2011, 16:29
This may be simplistic, but wouldn't round-robin DNS do what you're after?

marks
11-02-2011, 12:06
It may easily be that your 2 servers are not on the same subnet, so the Multicast ARP wouldn't work. It would with the vrack, as Mr Myatu says.

Also it doesn't seem that iptables will implement any persistence connection, which could be inconvenient for lots of web applications.


You can use our IP loadbalancing alongside the OcO service:

OVH Manager >> your server >> Services >> IP Load Balancing

or, another option will be to get an IP load balancing applicance:

http://www.ovh.co.uk/items/ace_load_balancing.xml

Myatu
10-02-2011, 18:14
Unless you have your own VRACK, I doubt you'll be able to toy around with multicast ARP (it would create way too many problems on the network). But the iptables method does not account for sessions or actual server load though (or do you mean network load?)

cioby23
10-02-2011, 18:04
What iptables rules do i need to use to perform equal load balancing between 2 webservers?
Currently the load balancer and the OCO service are set up.
I have seen an example here:
http://lserinol.blogspot.com/2008/05...-iptables.html
I tried to used it but it had no effect. Seems the clusterip module is not loaded.
Thanks,