Saturday, October 31, 2009

Load Balancing Software

I was talking to one of our system admins the other day about load balancing. He suggested I look into HAProxy. Apparently, gifts.com uses this for their load balancing rather than a hardware layer. One of the features I'm looking for is the ability to handle sticky sessions. I didn't see anything about it on the home page, but it's suppose to support it. This is something I'd like to look into at a later time:

http://haproxy.1wt.eu/

3 comments:

Mike Masters said...

I was just chatting with a friend of mine and he suggested looking at this doc.

dderr said...

Any recommendations for load balancers which support SSL?

Mike Masters said...

Looks like you can use Cyassl with HAProxy to get SSL support.

If you went with Apache, then you'd get all the SSL support it provides.